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Re: do not do this



On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:51:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Masayuki Hatta wrote:
> > Anyway I found the correspond sentence in Developer's Reference 5.6.5,
> > but I think the representation there is a little bit vague.  How about
> > changing it something like this:
> > 
> >  Bear in mind that it is not obligatory to close bugs using the changelog like
> >  described above -- if you simply want to close bugs that don't have anything to
> >  do with an upload of yours, do it simply by emailing an explanation to
> > -XXX-done@bugs.debian.org.
> > +XXX-done@bugs.debian.org.  In other words, you should not close bugs in this way
> > +if you want to close bugs which are not directly fixed in this package release.
> 
> The dev-reference could certianly use improvement in this area.

Like #166388, maybe?  The maintainers are not quite content with the
wording.  I for one wouldn't mind improvements from further people.

Regards,

Daniel.



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