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Re: bugzilla practices

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> We have "Last reconfirmed" in the bugzilla for glibc.
> 
> Why isn't this field just "Confirmed on?" and a date?
> 
> Why make the distinction between "Ever" and "Last" or "reconfirmed?"

Because an old bug may get incidentally fixed as a side-effect of another 
change without people realising at the time that the change does fix the 
bug.  So occasional reconfirming helps detect such cases.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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