Bug#535088: Bug number reservation
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 08.07.2009, 23:47 -0700 schrieb Don Armstrong:
> > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > > often, I need to know the bug number immediatelly after submitting,
> > > where waiting for it is annoying.
> > > For example:
> > > * I filed a wishlist bug for which I am preparing a patch. I need to
> > > know the bug number for the Closes: tag in the changelog.
> >
> > In general, you wouldn't need to know the number for this (unless you
> > were preparing a NMU diff or something).
>
> In this case, I wanted to prepare a patch (actually a git-branch)
> that included even the changelog entry, to reduce the work for the
> maintainer even more. But you are right, in general it’s not needed.
Yeah.
> > > * I filed a bug due to a running discussion, and I would like to reply
> > > „Good point, I filed a bug, please see http://bugs.debian.org/nnnn
> >
> > This you can approximate by using X-Debbugs-Cc:, which will
> > include this information in your response.
>
> Hmm, but the approximation is not create, because it would break
> threading.
That's actually something that we can probably change. Keeping the
References: and In-Reply-To: intact would do this.
> > [Almost all of the other reasons to know the bug number are part of
> > #49228, which I'm getting closer and closer to actually fixing.]
>
> Sorry, offline at the time of writing, I’ll have a look at it later.
It's the "do most control things at submit time."
> Maybe "wontfix, help" would be a good combination for „I won’t do
> it, but I don’t oppose it“ – something that I’d like to see much
> more often explicitly stated.
Done.
Don Armstrong
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