On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:18:53PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 04:42:03PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > How about this: tag the bug wontfix and close it. > > FWIW, Bugzilla views WONTFIX as a type of bug resolution, so you get > > RESOLVED/WONTFIX. By analogy, done/wontfix seems like a sensible state > > for a bug in debbugs. > > I like the idea. Some comments: > > - It could be useful not to archive done/wontfix bugs, to allow other > people to contribute ideas or motivations in the future: since the > wish has been refused but not satisfied, it seems appropriate to keep > the discussion open. > - There is a need for documenting this behaviour, should it be > accepted, and probably for documenting (and maybe discussing?) other > currently undocumented established practices that have popped up in > these threads. > - It could be useful to implement a view of the wishlist bugs including > done/wontfix bugs, to explore the contributed creativity that has not > made its way into the package. Enrico, Since no one from the BTS admin team replied to this, you might file it as a wishlist bug against bugs.debian.org. Hopefully they will be able to resist the temptation to mark it done/wontfix. :-P -- G. Branden Robinson | Freedom is kind of a hobby with me, Debian GNU/Linux | and I have disposable income that branden@debian.org | I'll spend to find out how to get http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | people more of it. -- Penn Jillette
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