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Re: When not to close a bug in a changelog...



On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:43:47PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:33:21PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> >Except that this cannot actually be assumed because some maintainers simply
> >don't do squat about fixes in NMUs -- some ignore them along with ignoring
> >their maintainership duties, some ignore them and do their own stuff.
> 
> If you ignore the patch then your changelog won't include the entry from
> the NMU, will it?

Correct, but if the bug's already been closed, it's too late: the bug
report will go by unnoticed, even though the bug will have been
reintroduced.

   Julian

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