Rename "Version" field to "Earliest Affected Version" in Bugzilla?

[Austin English]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> wrote:

> Vincent Povirk <madewokherd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > The original version is useful to test the original bug, it may be the
> > > difference between resolving it as FIXED (was able to reproduce and no
> > > longer happens) or WORKSFORME (could not reproduce in the reported
> > > version and nowadays).
> >
> > Why is the original version better for this purpose than a later
> > version that was tested and known to be affected by the bug?
>
> It's always better to test using exact version that the user had in order
> to avoid any side effects of patches applied after that point, possible
> another regression, something else that may happen after that (like
> introducing new compiler optimization in default flags, changed config.h
> dependency, added/removed MS_HOOK/WINAPI/CDECL thing, etc.,etc.)
>
> Testing using a later Wine version may reproduce something that looks
> like an original bug but be not the same thing in reality.
>
> --
> Dmitry
>

I think the number of cases where this would matter is trivial (compared to
the overall problem of what the version field means/keeping that value
meaningful).

-- 
-Austin
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