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Re: closing upstream bugs with debian/changelog



Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Actually, this is one of the reasons I find uninformative changelog
> entries problematic - should the bug not actually be fixed an
> uninformative close message makes it much more difficult to work out why
> the maintainer thought the bug was fixed.

Why the maintainer thought it was fixed does NOT matter.  It's whether
you think it's fixed or not that's important.  If you think it's still
broken, reopen the bug.  Or if that fails repeatedly, go to the committee.
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