10k open Ubuntu bugs

[Martin Pitt]

Hi,

Henrik [2006-04-24  9:49 +0100]:
> I find that quite a few of these are old bugs like: 
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/26610
> 
> In that case I was able to confirm the bug on my 5.10 system but not on 
> dapper, and so I marked it as Fixed Released. I guess this can be done 
> with most non-critical, non-security bugs. The bug still exists in 5.10 
> and that information gets somewhat hidden by closing the bug, but IMO 
> that is a lesser evil as it helps clear the backlog of open bugs. If 
> this approach is acceptable then I think it can be quite an efficient 
> way to clear out a number of old bugs. Thoughts?

I agree, and from what I have seen (and practice myself) this is
common practice; we don't fix non-{security,critical} bugs in
stables anyway, so it makes no sense to keep the bugs open, at least
as long as we don't have proper version tracking.

Thanks,

Martin

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