Re: Closing bugs in removed packages
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> I did some inactive maintainer work recently and noticed that someone
> wants to do an NMU for a package which is not in the archive anymore.
> It is one of about 30 packages which were purged by the RM in November
> (see http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt and search for "purged
> by RM"). I normally close bugs of packages that are removed from
> Debian, but I remember not closing the bugs of those packages because
> the packages were not removed with the consent of the maintainer. And
> that means that the packages might get re-introduced again later.
> Since you cannot re-open bugs after 30 days, I thought I'd just leave
> them open for now. However, this is not an optimal solution since
> there are about 40 RC bugs and > 300 bugs in total just from these
> packages (packages which are not even in Debian anymore!).
Adding reopening of archived bugs is really rather trival. So trivial that no
one has done it.
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