On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 22:32:44 +0100 Justin B Rye wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > [...] > > > > Wow, that's a major rewrite of part of the man page! > > Do you release it under the same license terms as apt-listbugs (GPLv2 > > or later [1])? > > Sure, this and any other material I contribute. Thank you so much, your contribution is really appreciated! > Maybe I ought to have > some sort of default licensing statement in my mailheaders, if only I > could think of something clear and concise enough. I think it's better to explicitly say that, rather than relying on some boilerplate text that one will sooner or later even forget of having inserted... > > > I will think about it and I will probably fix it, sooner or later (but > > I don't know whether such a change is acceptable during a freeze... so > > maybe later). > > A man page rewrite is enough to be getting on with; any changes in > behaviour (and don't forget the naming of the --stats option!) can > wait. Yes, I agree. I will prepare a two-step plan: enhance (non-internationalized) documentation now, wait until wheezy is out before fixing behavioral bugs and changing translatable strings. > > Which is the "fixed" state checking for, though - a tag or some other > feature? http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer doesn't say anything > about the "fixed" tag being obsolete - it just says that it replaces > "the old _fixed_ severity". And then again there's the server-control > command "fixed <bugnumber> <version>"... As I said, I think it corresponds to the "fixed" tag: see the git-extras example in my previous message (in this same sub-thread). -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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