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Re: Packages still using /usr/doc in unstable



On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:13:18AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 27-Mar-01, 07:20 (CST), Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote: 
> > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > 
> > > No! It is the responsibility of the person doing the NMU to contact the
> > > maintainer. The maintainer is responsible for closing bugs when they are
> > > fixed.
> > But what about Bugs which are to be closed atomagically via appropriate
> > entry in changelog file?  I think they will be closed and the maintainer
> > get the mail about the closed bug.
> 
> NMUs should *not* contain such entries in the changelogs. The bugs
> should be tagged as fixed.

katie now distinguishes between MUs and NMUs, and marks the bugs as
closed or fixed respectively.  So it makes sense to use the "closes:
#nnnn" syntax even in NMUs.

   Julian

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