Bug#356182: please improve mass-submitter-changing (aka new email address)

[Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>]

reassign 356182 devscripts
forcemerge 433169 356182
thanks

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> This is a pretty uncomfortable, especially when you have filled more
> than, say 50 bugs.
> 
> A better solution would be to allow a pattern like:
> 
> submitter all <old address> <new address>
> 
> where "all" is a wildcard and stands for all bugs filled by the old
> address.

The solution is actually to make bts (the command in devscripts)
slightly more powerful, which I have done with the patch for #433169.

If you apply that patch, you can then do the following:

bts submitter $(bts select submitter:foo@old.com) foo@new.com;

or similar bouts of madness.


Don Armstrong

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