Re: Lightening bug maintainer load

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth ireland sun com>]

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>One thing I think we need in the mail->bugzilla filter having thought about
>things for a while is a version table checker that autoreplies and dumps
>bug-buddy format bugs for a version older than the listed lowest supported
>revision with a general how to find upgraded packages mail

I'm not so sure it is such a good idea to dump a bug
report automatically. There's no reason why a bug
from a previous version can't also be in the current version.

It might be ok to have an advisory mail to say that a later version
is available.

Colm.