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Re: Bug reports missing



On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:22:42AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:30:49AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > I just sendet
> > >
> > >   mailx -s "Merge" control@bugs.debian.org <<...
> > >   merge 219863 223355
> > >   close 223355
> > >   thanks
> > >
> > > and got the answer mentioned below.  In fact my research showed that #219863
> > > does not exist in the BTS.
> >
> > #219863 is archived, as http://bugs.debian.org/219863 says near the top
> > of the page. You can't make any changes to archived bugs.
> 
> OK, perhaps I should have used
>        merge 223355 219863
> to avoid this - which is not *really* important.

No, you can't make *any* changes to archived bugs. This includes merging
other bugs with them (merge is commutative).

> But the problme was that
>        http://bugs.debian.org/219863
> showed some kind of "This bug report does not exist" when I tried this morning.
> Seems to be fixed now ...

Don't know about that. All the relevant files are dated Nov 9 so I'm not
sure how that could have gone wrong ...

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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