Bug#269189: Mail server reference card is outdated
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 06:22:38PM +0200, Loic Minier wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - Tue, Aug 31, 2004:
>
> > > I think the mail server reference card is outdated, for two reasons:
> > > - it states that you can't merge bugs which don't have the exact same
> > > tags, but you can (see below),
> > Where does it explicitly state that? I don't see it (and indeed it isn't
> > true).
>
> Hmm, it seems I misunderstood the section on merge in the
> server-control page (<http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control>) which
> says:
>
> "Before bugs can be merged they must be in exactly the same state:
> either all open or all closed, with the same forwarded-to upstream
> author address or all not marked as forwarded, all assigned to the same
> package or package(s) (an exact string comparison is done on the
> package to which the bug is assigned), and all of the same severity. If
> they don't start out in the same state you should use reassign, reopen
> and so forth to make sure that they are before using merge. Titles are
> not required to match, and will not be affected by the merge."
>
> While not strictly necessary, it would do no harm to say that the tags
> other than upstream might differ.
Perhaps like that:
Index: server-control.wml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/Bugs/server-control.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.43
diff -u -r1.43 server-control.wml
--- server-control.wml 17 Sep 2004 05:09:43 -0000 1.43
+++ server-control.wml 18 Sep 2004 14:25:28 -0000
@@ -163,7 +163,8 @@
If they don't start out in the same state you should use
<code>reassign</code>, <code>reopen</code> and so forth to make sure
that they are before using <code>merge</code>. Titles are not required
-to match, and will not be affected by the merge.</p>
+to match, and will not be affected by the merge. Tags are not required
+to match, too, they will be joined.</p>
<P>If any of the bugs listed in a <code>merge</code> command is already
merged with another bug then all the reports merged with any of the
Proposals for better wording welcome.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/
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