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On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:30:34PM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> This implies that the upstream is alive enough to fix it.
> 
> I feel it should mean that the bug has been reported to upstream, and
> that state is documented in the bug.
> 
> If we keep every upstream bug open instead of closed, we'd have probably
> another 2500 open bugs (5312 RESO/UPSTREAM in the history of Gentoo, and
> I'm ballparking that 50% aren't actually fixed yet upstream).

Bug may be a blocker. And marking it as RESOLVED/UPSTREAM you may
unblock another bug (e.g. stabilization request) which should be still
blocked because there is no fixed package in tree.