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Bug#376594: debbugs: Add 'notbug' to allowable tags. This is different from 'wontfix'



| Am Montag, den 03.07.2006, 23:38 +0300 schrieb Jari Aalto:
| > Package: debbugs
| > Severity: wishlist
| > 
| > There is need for different tag for cases where the user as misunderstood
| > or he didn't found the correct documentation. Marking such bugs 'closed'
| > would better have tag 'notbug'. The 'wontfix' is really interpreted
| > as 'I don't gime a d--m' as expressed in Debian devel.
| 
| I would also like to see such a tag. I observed (and also reported :))
| such "bugs", which are not bugs.
| 
| > This is Feature request based on idea of Linas Evirblis in Debian
| > devel.
| 
| Wouldn't it be better to call this tag 'notabug'? IMO this is better
| understandable und also used in other BTS systems like e.g. bugzilla.

While that would be "English clean" name with an article "A", the tool
in BTS is for technical use. To my opinion 
    
    "not bug"

better and expresses the extra meaning. Like in programming
langauges:

    ! variable
    ! error
    
Or 
    not variable
    not error

Jari




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