Hi Don, Am Mittwoch, den 08.07.2009, 23:47 -0700 schrieb Don Armstrong: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > often, I need to know the bug number immediatelly after submitting, > > where waiting for it is annoying. > > For example: > > * I filed a wishlist bug for which I am preparing a patch. I need to > > know the bug number for the Closes: tag in the changelog. > > In general, you wouldn't need to know the number for this (unless you > were preparing a NMU diff or something). In this case, I wanted to prepare a patch (actually a git-branch) that included even the changelog entry, to reduce the work for the maintainer even more. But you are right, in general it’s not needed. > > * I filed a bug due to a running discussion, and I would like to reply > > „Good point, I filed a bug, please see http://bugs.debian.org/nnnn > > This you can approximate by using X-Debbugs-Cc:, which will include > this information in your response. Hmm, but the approximation is not create, because it would break threading. > [Almost all of the other reasons to know the bug number are part of > #49228, which I'm getting closer and closer to actually fixing.] Sorry, offline at the time of writing, I’ll have a look at it later. > This would require such a massive change to the way we allocate bugs > (and other subtle changes to the codebase which assumes that bug > number equates to filing order) that I can't imagine changing this. > > That said, if someone were to go ahead and write such a patch, I could > imagine fixing it. Marking it wontfix just to indicate to myself that > I'm not planning on fixing it, not that I won't consider accepting > such a patch. Fair enough, it’s just an suggestion anyways. Maybe "wontfix, help" would be a good combination for „I won’t do it, but I don’t oppose it“ – something that I’d like to see much more often explicitly stated. Greetings, and CU at debconf, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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