XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist 
 From: sanvila@debian.org 
  
 > > Version tracking was supposed to help people, not to make their work 
 > > more painful or to force them to jump through hoops. 
 > 
 > Version tracking is helping here. The bug is still open in unstable and 
 > forky. The BTS exactly tells you that. 
  
 No, the bug is closed. There no such thing as "open in unstable". 
  
 AFAIK, the right terminology for this is to say that the bug *affects* 
 unstable, but there is only one open and closed thing, and it's 
 orthogonal to version tracking and (in this case) it's being used in 
 an unhelpful way. 
  
 > Please stop making everything more complicated than it needs to be. 
  
 Exactly my point. By making the traditional open/close semantics 
 meaningless when such thing is not strictly required by version 
 tracking, you are making my work as QA tester more complicated than it 
 needs to be. 
  
 On the other hand, if you think this open/closed thing really makes 
 things more complicated than they need to be, you should probably 
 advocate for removing such feature from the BTS completely. I'm all 
 for simplifying things... 
  
 Thanks. 
  
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