#1543046 wrongly marked as fixed for Wily

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, all!

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On 07/07/2016 07:14 PM, php fan wrote:
>> Given that Wily is completely EOL in a few days,
> What? Wily will become EOL before it's even safe to upgrade to Xenial?
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf/+bug/1551623)
Wily will End of Life on July 28th.  This was sent over the
announcements list by Adam Conrad earlier this morning (my time).  I
don't have the link to the one on the general announcements list, but it
also went over the security announce list, and that message is here for
your review: 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2016-July/003492.html

>
>> I doubt you're going to get any traction on this
> Well, that doesn't mean that it makes sense to keep the status as "fix
> released" when it is not fixed.
>
> I would change it myself but Launchpad doesn't let normal users change bug
>  status when it is "fix released" (which is stupid, given that we do can
> change it _to_ "fix released")
>
> (<remainder of original message snipped>)

The reason it's marked "Fix Released" is because a package was released
to the repository from the proposed repository which had the bug
referenced in the changelog as addressing the issue, and in turn when it
was released, it closed the bug.  That's an automatic process, and the
automatic system isn't as smart as you or I.

That being said, while we (any bug control member) could go and change
the bug back to "Triaged" or "Confirmed" and poke that it never fixed
it, I am not sure that this would get 'fixed' before then (note: I'm not
intimately familiar with the package so I can't state that with any real
authority).  And if it is not, then it would get marked "Won't Fix" when
someone goes through and does post-EOL-release cleanup.  Given that it
is possible it wouldn't get fixed, because Wily goes end of life in
three weeks time, I would let this one go, and prepare your environments
for upgrading to Xenial when Wily dies on the 28th.


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Thomas Ward
Launchpad: ~teward