Re: Mystery bug acks

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

David Engel writes ("Re: Mystery bug acks"):
> Ian, this is another area where the bug system could be made easier to
> use.  If the system goes to the trouble os sending an ack to the
> submitter of the report that a bug is being closed, why can't it also
> forward the message which closed the report?

Yes, I could do that.

How about if I arrange for the message which closed the report to be
appended to the submitter's ack, and make it possible to close bug
reports `en-masse' using the -request interface.  This latter would
send only a `bare' ack to the submitter.

Ian.