Hello, On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:25:47PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-10-06 22:09 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > > > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> 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. > > Thanks; now that you mention it, I see that my bug #417879 has indeed > been fixed by adding a note to section 5.3 of the etch release notes. > Still, mentioning this in the bug closures would have been nice. I've bad connectivity now, so I cannot check ATM, but IMHO an explanatory messages would have been nice, and maybe closing them once included (instead of tagging them pending) would be an improved workflow? Greetings Helge -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann debian@helgefjell.de Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/
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