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Dear bugs.debian.org maintainers, On 10/29/2014 02:02 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:49 PM, jre <[email protected]> wrote: >> I filed a bug against wine-development with reportbug. This shows me the >> list of current bugs against wine-development. Every bug in this list >> has either the status "done" or "pending". The latter is wrong or at >> least confusing since it can be misunderstood as tagged "pending", which >> none of those actually is. (Some of them are tagged "patch", and others >> are completely untagged and have only the submitters mail). >> >> So I don't know what the reason is to show these bugs as "pending". >> Maybe they should just be shown as "open" unless they get tagged "pending". > > there is a bit of misunderstanding here, mixing up tags and statuses. > when a bug is in status 'pending' it means it still misses a > resolution (it is pending a resolution), while when a bug is tagged > 'pending' it means a fix has been found and it's soon to be released. > > This information are returned from the BTS to reportbug, which just > shows them, so if you want clarification, i think you'd better contact > [email protected] (the owner of the BTS). I think the use of "Status: pending" is confusing given the widespread use of "Tag: pending". To avoid this I'd suggest to use "Status: open" instead. I don't know the inner workings of the bts, I just stumbled upon this when using reportbug and was pointed here then. I assume the use of "Outstanding bugs ..." on the websites https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=... and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=... is also based on "Status: pending". This unambiguous presentation is exactly what I'd hope to see in reportbug, too. So personally I don't know where the best place is to fix this. Of course, changing internal stuff of b.d.o might break other stuff. Thanks everybody for your work, much appreciated jre _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint
