Bugzilla: Version = unspecified vs. trunk?

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Roland McGrath wrote:

> > Presumably your idea is that trunk bugs reflect some transient defect in 
> > the source tree, but I don't think that's the normal case.
> 
> If a bug existed in the most recent release, then its version field should
> cite that release rather than trunk.  It's certainly useful for the bug to

I think that's the source of the confusion; I'd think the rule would be: 
test with the most recent version you conveniently have to hand, and if 
that's trunk then report it against trunk.  (The expectation would be that 
many past releases would likely be affected as well in most cases, but the 
extent to which past releases are affected would be something to be 
considered later if it looks like the fix might be good to backport.)

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Joseph S. Myers
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