When not to close a bug in a changelog...
... when you actually didn't change anything.
For example:
bison (1:1.50-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Closes: #113365 (Can't reproduce and never answered my email).
bash (2.05b-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Report is missing any information. Bug submitter didn't respond.
Closes: #130051.
bug-buddy (2.1.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
* This wasn't actually a bug-buddy issue and the submitter found the
solution themselves. (closes: #146428)
IMHO bugs that did not require any changes shouldn't be closed by
changelog entrys, but by mails to <number>-close@bugs.debian.org
That includes:
- unreproduceable bugs where the submitter doesn't reply
- unreproduceable bugs that the submitter can't reproduce any more
- bugs that were probably fixed in some previous upload
(they aren't fixed by that upload, so the upload should NOT close them.)
bugs that somehow "disappeared" should be closed by a mail "probably
fixed in version x.y.z or x.y.w"
If the submitter says the bug is fixed in a test package you provided
(or in an upstream version he compiled itself, or upstream says they
fixed it) closing the bugs if fine of course; as is if you could
reproduce the bug before and can't afterwards.
Gruss,
Erich Schubert
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