If the bug is fixed in a newer (Testing or Unstable) version of the package, is there any hope that the fix might make it down to Stable before the next major release? I imagine not, unless it has severity Grave or the like.Is it actually helpful to the developers working on versions that are perhaps two or even three years newer? I would like to be as helpful in bug reporting as I can, and to that end, I would like to set up a Sid installation in a virtual machine so that I can try to reproduce my Stable bugs before reporting them, but even if the bug is still present in the newer version, will the developers actually pay much attention to a bug reported against Stable?I guess there's a lot of additional, fuzzier questions around this that I can't quite put into words - but basically, I would love to hear from some developers if I'm just pestering them or if reporting bugs against old packages is actually helpful.
How helpful is it, really, to report bugs against Stable packages?
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