unmaintained bugs

[jd1008]

On 07/21/2015 11:35 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 07/21/2015 10:18 AM, jd1008 wrote:
>>
>> I suspect that the bug is never fixed even in rel 2, nor do the lease
>> notes make any mention of the fix re: the automatically ignored bugs
>> from the previous rel.
>
> When a bug is closed at EOL but still exists, you can reopen it and 
> change the version to a supported one.  I know of one bug in Alacarte 
> that spanned four different Fedora versions.  If memory serves, it was 
> closed as FIXED several times and re-opened *because the various 
> patches were ineffective*.

Indeed - this method has been the whole history of fixing the 4GB limit 
in TB.