On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 10:04:01PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 03:56:04PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >>On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:55:41PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: >>>On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:29:58AM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >>>>I would like to close bug #10643 which is archived. Is there any way >>>>to get it back from the archive to close it? >>> >>>How can an opened bug be archived? >> >>Colin Watson said the closing message was lost when the bug report was >>restored from a backup. >> >>It isn't just a bug in that situation. There are 68 bugs archived >>without being closed. See [0] or [1]. Sorry, I didn't mention [1] points to [0]. >Yes. The situation I'm referring to is that, once upon a time, we didn't >archive bugs when they expired; we just deleted them. Somewhere in the >#30000-odd range, I think, the BTS administrators of the time introduced >archiving. However, all bugs that expired before that time were lost. > >At some point, a couple of people showed up with mirrors of the bug >tracking system web pages, and Joey Hess (possibly others?) worked to >recover old bug data from that. Obviously, old bugs like these are all >considered as archived. However, there were a number of cases where the >mirror was taken before the closing message arrived, and in those cases >the data importer left the bugs open. > >There isn't an awful lot we can do about this, beyond marking them all >unilaterally as done (which is honest in one way, but dishonest in >another - after all, we don't know why they were closed). Fortunately, >it isn't very important. Maybe you could unarchive them, as you did with bug #10643, and hopefully they will be closed by their respective maintainers. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=&archive=yes&raw=yes&bug-rev=yes&pend-exc=fixed&pend-exc=done >>[1] http://tinyurl.com/2ryrc > >I don't think there's any need to use shortened URLs on this mailing >list, but when doing so I'd consider it polite to say where they >redirect to. In future, I'll mention where the shortened URLs point to. >Cheers, > >-- >Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk] Anibal Monsalve Salazar -- .''`. Debian GNU/Linux | Building 28C : :' : Free Operating System | Monash University VIC 3800, Australia `. `' http://debian.org/ | http://www-personal.monash.edu/~anibal/ `- |
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