Re: Lightening bug maintainer load

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> 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.

True in itself

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

And advise the user that if the bug is still there to report it with the
new version. Otherwise the number of repeat bugs is getting far too high.

Im not talking here about saying '0.97 is out so send mail for 0.96' but
'1.4 is out start advising people to update when they report 1.0 bugs)