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Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse



On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 09:07:23PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > There have been many instances where a changelog entry says "fixed by
> > the upstream" and I could not for the life of me find out how in their
> > changelog.
> 
> Therein lies the problem.
> 
> As far as the BTS is concerned, it is irrelevant how a bug is fixed.

And as far as most Debian users are concerned, it is not.
The BTS exists to handle bugs because of the users, not the other way around.
What exactly is so problematic about respecting users' wishes in this regard?

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