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Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse



On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 08:48:34AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:38:50PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 
> > > As far as the BTS is concerned, it is irrelevant how a bug is fixed.
> > 
> > Wrong.  The BTS is a front-end to users.  When bugs are closed, the
> > submitter(a normal user) is notified.  This notification *must* include a
> > user-oriented response.  "This is fixed" is not such a response.
> 
> "This is fixed" is the only response that makes sense to every bug
> submitter.

"This is fixed" is the only response that is useless to everyone.

I guess that explains its appeal to you...

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G. Branden Robinson                |     You could wire up a dead rat to a
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     DIMM socket and the PC BIOS memory
branden@debian.org                 |     test would pass it just fine.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     -- Ethan Benson

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