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Re: Bug#40115: reportbug: needs to display open bug reports



On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 04:01:52PM -0000, Joey Hess wrote:
[snip]
> I just recvied 12 identical bug reports on a minor bug in xaw-wrappers. This
> wasted a good 10 minutes of my time in fixing them (the bug itself was
> closed 14 hours ago).

a) It would help greatly if the bugs mirrors were synced more often.

b) How about doing something like "finger xaw-wrappers@bugs.debian.org"?
This could return the last weeks worth of bugs (subject and first ten lines
(excluding Package, version, Severity)).

Thoughts?

Adrian

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