Ubuntu bugs marked "Fix released" before fix is generally available
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
AIUI, Launchpad marks Ubuntu bugs as "Fix released" when it receives an upload claiming to fix a bug. This is good, but it would be better to mark the bug as "Fix released" only when the upload has been built & published for all architectures. Otherwise, it leads to people filing duplicate bugs, or being confused because a "fixed" bug is still not fixed.
This is deliberate Ubuntu policy; please get techboard confirmation that this should change, until then this bug is at most incomplete, if not invalid.
I think there's another existing bug about 'fix released' being
unclear to users and also inconsistent across projects.
This issue should be included with kate's effort to re-examine the way statuses are used in Ubuntu.
I'll change the status back and forth a bit to ensure the bug is not considered "incomplete with new responses" until we get desired behaviour from Kate and others.
[Expired for Launchpad itself because there has been no activity for 60 days.]
I just spoke with Colin Watson while Martin Pitt & Steve Langasek were in the room. He said that closing on upload was _not_ specifically requested and that it would be better to closed after, say, the source package was published. He raised the problem of the binary not becoming available for multiple architectures at the same time, and thought that both changing status after first or last binary publish would both be options. I guess the latter would raise a question about what to do when one of the architectures fail to build.