Bug archived on Debian showing as fix released

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Hello all,

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 16:16 +0530, shirish wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>   From what I understand the Debian BTS closes bug reports when it
>> fixes a bug. It also does closes the bug when due to inactivity it
>> doesn't get fixed.  Something similar to what  launchpad janitor tries
>> to do. Now this gives wrong impressions for both times it shows as the
>> fix being released (on launchpad) when it is not so.
>>
>> For e.g. look at this bug report on debian
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435888
>>
>> From the couple of last posts it seems it just didn't get worked out
>> and the bug-report got closed but if you look at the launchpad page of
>> the same bug it shows that the fix is released.
>>
>> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/283491
>>
>> Am I reading something wrong or what?
>
> Yes, you're reading it wrong.  The current status in Ubuntu is
> "Confirmed".  When a bug is closed due to inactivity in Ubuntu, it is
> marked Invalid.
>

The concern of Shirish is about the way launchpad interprets the
status of the debian bug. The point is that the bug in Debian has been
closed due to inactivity - and remains unfixed - but the status for
the Debian bug watch in Launchpad is "Fix Released". As you said,
following launchpad policy, the Debian bug watch should be marked
"Invalid" and not "Fix Released". But I may be wrong.

Sincerely.

--
Jean-Baptiste