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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
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