Re: Closing bugs in removed packages, plus .status format change
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:12:41PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> > [Please don't cc me, thanks.]
>
> What about bcc? Or forward?
I read both -devel and -debbugs already, so more copies of mail to those
lists are redundant.
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:46:18AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> > Or you could add the new code but include a temporary fallback to the
> > old code, convert one file at a time deleting the old one, then delete
> > the temporary fallback. *shrug* As you say, master can handle the
> > transition.
>
> It's simpler to convert them all at once, and then just write out both
> files as needed. If done as you suggest, we have to maintain code
> that can read both files.
Right, no problem. (The converter should go into CVS, like
debbugs-dbhash, so that people using the package can do the conversion
easily.)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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