How to deal with bugs from removed packages?

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>]

Hi,

What's the best way to deal with bugs from packages that are removed
from unstable? Currently, they are not closed when a package is removed.
I can see two solutions:

- Close them. However, they might still affect stable or oldstable.  So
  closing them without a version might lead people to thinking that the
  bug is solved. And I'm not sure that closing them with a version is a
  solution either: there's no version we can use to indicate that a
  package was removed.

- Leave them open and ignore them. However, it prevents them from being
  archived. I'm not sure if bugs that don't affect unstable, testing,
  stable or oldstable, but are not closed, are automatically archived?

owner@bugs.d.o, what should we do?
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