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Re: BTS: Why no "invalid" or "notabug" tag?



On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:19:59 -0500, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> said: 

> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The one thing that I really wanted to have happen and was surprised
>> didn't happen was that I wanted a blocking annotation be
>> automatically removed when the blocking bug was closed.  (Or even
>> better, made dormant so that if the other bug would reopen, the
>> annotation would reappear.)
>> 
>> I thought I was going to be able to use blocks as a reminder to
>> myself why I couldn't work on a bug yet, so when scanning down the
>> BTS report, I would ignore bugs with still active blocks.  But
>> since the status of the blocking bug doesn't propagate through and
>> show up on the blocked bug, I still have to recheck it each time
>> and all blocks really does in practice is add a link.

> I agree, if I had some ability to work on blocking bugs again,
> removing them on close is probably the next thing I'd try to do.

        Oh, I can see that. With proper notification to the owner of
 the blocked bug, and perhaps an email logged in the now unblocked bug
 report.

        manoj
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