Bugs not getting closed when they should be

[Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com>]

I was just scanning the Incoming/REPORT file and saw the following:

(for package dpkg)
  * Don't strip 8th bit in dselect packagelists, Closes: Bug# 49061
  * Don't use \z in dpkg-scansources, Closes: Bug# 53182
  * Correctly unregister internals manual, Closes: Bug# 53200
  * dselect helpessages can be translated now, Closes: Bug# 51381
  * dselect UI tweaks, including a new --expert mode
  * Added build-depends, Closes: Bug# 53394
  * Added THANKS-file with people who have contributed to the code
  * Use full width of tty in packagelisting, Closes: Bug# 53395
  * Add -z option to dpkg-deb to set compressionlevel when building
    packages, Closes: Bug# 53398
  * Fix segfaults when producing a diff between current and new
conffile,
    Closes: Bug# 52197

and then:

Closing bugs: 

*No bugs were closed !!!*

This is correct in the sense that the regex used does not allow
a space between the # and the bug number.

So is this a bug in the maintainer or in the dinstall process?

How many other bugs closes have been missed by the simple error?

(Ofcourse, this could be intentional, but that seems unlikely)

Martijn
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The worst bugs are the ones that don't look like bugs.