On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Daniel Pocock wrote: > The precise upstream version with the fix is an accurate piece of > information, is there a strong reason not to accept that information > from a maintainer and then use the version comparison algorithm to > automatically decide which changelog versions are fixed?
The reason is that there's no universal way to turn arbitrary upstream version strings into the corresponding Debian version. Sometimes it's obvious (like this case), but it's not obvious in enough cases that there's no heuristic for it. Producing more informative errors/warning messages when bugs are closed with wrong versions is on my todo list. [Currently, if you used fixed/found with invalid versions, you do get warnings, but Versions: to -done doesn't produce that output.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un maître inhumain qui tue ses élèves. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Berlioz
