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Bug#353447: marked as done (Weird suggestion on closing bugs fixed in NMU)

Your message dated Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:47:09 -0700
with message-id <E1FSe0D-000766-Hs@spohr.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#353447: fixed in developers-reference 3.3.7
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: developers-reference
Severity: normal

To my big surprise, I read in section 6.3.2:

| It is an old tradition to acknowledge bugs fixed in non-maintainer
| uploads in the first changelog entry of the proper maintainer upload,
| for instance, in a changelog entry like this:
| 
|            * Maintainer upload, closes: #42345, #44484, #42444.
| 
| This will close the NMU bugs tagged "fixed" when the package makes it
| into the archive. The bug for the fact that an NMU was done can be
| closed the same way. Of course, it's also perfectly acceptable to close
| NMU-fixed bugs by other means; see Responding to bugs, Section 5.8.2. 

Which is IMHO wrong advice: The bug submitter will then get this
statement as a bug closing mail, while the bug wasn't closed by this
upload! I think this practice should rather be strongly discouraged,
rather than encouraged.

The best practice IMHO is to use dpkg-buildpackage -v<last maintainer
upload> on the maintainer upload, thereby including the changelogs bits
for the NMU's, and not mention any bugs that were not solely "I NMU'd,
here's a patch" type of bugs. In general, it should IMHO be
emphasised that a Closes: statement in a changelog should at all
times refer to something that actually really is closing/fixing the
bug in question, rather than procedural stuff etc.

With dpkg-buildpackage -v, the submitter of a bug will get as
explanation the changelog bit that actually made his bug get resolved.

Thanks,
--Jeroen

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-- 
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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Source: developers-reference
Source-Version: 3.3.7

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
developers-reference, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

developers-reference-fr_3.3.7_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/developers-reference/developers-reference-fr_3.3.7_all.deb
developers-reference_3.3.7.dsc
  to pool/main/d/developers-reference/developers-reference_3.3.7.dsc
developers-reference_3.3.7.tar.gz
  to pool/main/d/developers-reference/developers-reference_3.3.7.tar.gz
developers-reference_3.3.7_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/developers-reference/developers-reference_3.3.7_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 353447@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> (supplier of updated developers-reference package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:31:52 -0600
Source: developers-reference
Binary: developers-reference-fr developers-reference
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.3.7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Documentation Project <debian-doc@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
Description: 
 developers-reference - guidelines and information for Debian developers
 developers-reference-fr - guidelines and information for Debian developers, in French
Closes: 295483 297069 298016 299217 302000 305947 306120 306630 308103 309502 317411 320981 326857 327682 334820 336146 338660 339826 340024 341195 341197 341568 344303 347229 348160 349493 351255 351944 352749 353447
Changes: 
 developers-reference (3.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Andreas Barth:
     - adjust information about distributions with reality.
     - add note on alioth accounts. Thanks, Phillip Kern. Closes: #306630
     - correct manpage section of dpkg-scanpackages. Closes: #297069
     - fix RFC 2440 URL. Closes: #308103
     - add $arch@buildd information. Closes: #295483
     - link to keyring.d.o for key replacement. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
       Closes: #298016
     - add information about Packages-arch-specific. Thanks, Frank Küster.
       Closes: #302000
     - add hint about LWN subscription. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
       Closes: #299217
     - more about debconf-style translation. Thanks, Christian Perrier.
       Closes: #309502
     - non-us discontinued.
     - document nmu changes wrt version tracking. Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
       Closes: #341197
     - fix spelling issues. Thanks to various people.
       Closes: #336146, #326857, #338660
     - update menu policy helpers. Thanks, Florian Ernst. Closes: #340024
     - send mia-mail to mia@qa. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #341568
     - Joerg Jaspert is now freenode contact. Closes: #344303
     - give a clearer description of the gpg v4-key issues. Thanks,
       Martin Michlmayr and Peter Palfrader. Closes: #317411
     - more verbose about Homepage. Closes: #339826
     - add sarge and etch. Closes: #327682
     - document severity of RoM-request bugs. Closes: #305947
     - update FSF address. Closes: #334820
     - fix P-a-s link. Closes: #341195
     - reflect binNMU changes. Closes: #349493
     - new security upload queue. Closes: #352749
     - fix experimental's sources.list entry. Closes: #347229
     - remove deprecated "Closes:..." to ACK NMU bug fixes. Closes: #353447
     - when resigning, gpg-sign your mail. Closes: #348160
     - make pristine source and repackaged origtargz anchors work.
       Closes: #351255
     - same number of RC bugs is ok. Closes: #351944
     - dpkg-source doesn't keep permissions. Thanks, Enrico Zini.
       Closes: #306120
     - also mention aspell. Closes: #320981
 .
   * Frédéric Bothamy
     - French translation updated to version 3.3.7, proofread by Bernard Adrian
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 075ee8db80660b21d2d1b51ca29e79c4 589522 doc optional developers-reference_3.3.7_all.deb
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