- next if (!$disttags{$dist});
- if (Debbugs::Status::check_bug_presence(bug => $f, status => $bug, dist => $dist) eq 'pending') {
- $relinfo .= uc(substr($dist, 0, 1));
+ # only bother to check the versioning status for the distributions indicated by the tags
+ for my $dist qw(oldstable stable testing unstable experimental) {
+ local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {};
+
+ next if (!$disttags{$dist});
+
+ my $presence = Debbugs::Status::bug_presence(
+ bug => $f,
+ status => $bug,
+ dist => $dist,
+ arch => [ qw(alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc) ]
+ );
+
+ # ignore bugs that are absent/fixed in this distribution, include everything
+ # else (that is, "found" which says that the bug is present, and undef, which
+ # indicates that no versioning information is present and it's not closed
+ # unversioned)
+ if (!defined($presence) || ($presence ne 'absent' && $presence ne 'fixed')) {
+ $relinfo .= uc(substr($dist, 0, 1));
+ }