Bug#403390: Fwd: Bug#403390 acknowledged by developer (closing 403390)
Sven Joachim wrote:
> Am 06.10.2008 um 11:45 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann:
>
>> Hello Luk,
>> ----- Forwarded message from Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org> -----
>>
>>> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
>>> #403390: release-notes: Keyboard for X on ppc now fully functional,
>>> which was filed against the release-notes package.
>>>
>>> It has been marked as closed by one of the developers, namely
>>> Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>.
>>>
>>> You should be hearing from them with a substantive response shortly,
>>> in case you haven't already. If not, please contact them directly.
>> ----- End forwarded message -----
>>
>> I haven't yet received your explanation. Could you please resend?
>
> I have received a similar mail (for #417879), and the archive of the
> debian-doc mailing list shows that Luk closed about two dozen other bugs
> in that impressively informative way recently.
>
> It seems the rationale is this: the bugs were for the etch release
> notes, so they become (more or less) automatically irrelevant for lenny.
> That's why Martin Zobel-Helas tagged them "pending" in August 2007 and
> Luk closed them now.
Martin tagged them pending as they were either fixed (as in don't need
an update of the release notes anymore) or committed to the release
notes in a point release of etch.
Cheers
Luk
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