Re: Bug#905578 is marked as fixed but not closed

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 05:21:55PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 08:34:50PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Hiya,
> > 
> > I just ran into this bug (#905578) on a testing system.  I note that
> > it has been marked as fixed in 40.1, but for some reason that I don't
> > fully understand, marking a bug as fixed just says that it is fixed in
> > some version, it doesn't actually close the bug, so this bug is still
> > open.  I presume that you intended to close it with the release of
> > 40.1?
> > 
> > Best wishes,
> > 
> >    Julian
> > 
> 
> I decided to leave this particular bug open in the hopes of reducing
> the proliferation of duplicate bugs on this issue (fixed in sid), and
> I plan to forcemerge 905578 into 905235--which will close it--once
> 40.1 is able to be installed in buster; that will take at least
> another eight days.

That makes sense!  It will take somewhat longer than eight days,
though: it needs emacs 1:25.2+1-9 to transition first, and that is at
least 13 more days.

Best wishes,

   Julian