Vincent Povirk <madewokherd@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Probably, but it saves quite a bit of time and hair for a tester and
> > avoids inspecting the whole bug history and all the comments to find out
> > an exact version that an original reporter had used. There are bug reports
> > where somebody comes and says "The bug is back!", so in order to test whether
> > this is a regression or the bug was never fixed one needs to test using
> > an original Wine version.
>
> In a situation like that you should be inspecting the comments anyway.
> The only difference if we change the version field is that you have to
> open the bug history, search for Version, and read the first entry to
> find out what the original reported version was (if that first entry
> is wrong, there will be a comment explaining what it actually is and
> why).

For instance the Regression SHA1 field was introduced exactly to avoid
searching through all the comments and filtering the wrong ones.

> And inspecting the comments will be faster because they won't be
> cluttered with "still present in x.y.z".

I wouldn't be so sure about both of these statements :).

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Dmitry.