Re: sponsor required for gstar (ITP #88503)

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:

> On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:39:57AM +0200, ericvb@debian.org wrote:
> > 
> > Not sure your Closes: command will work. It might be closes: I don't know.
> > 
> 
> According to section 10.4 of the Developer's Reference, the Perl regular
> expression that a Closes: statement must match is:
> 
> /closes:\s*(?:bug)?\#\s*\d+(?:,\s*(?:bug)?\#\s*\d+)*/ig
> 
> This is case-insensitive.

Alternatively, use dpkg-parsechangelog from your build directory
to see if it caught the close statement in the changelog.  e.g.

$ dpkg-parsechangelog 
Source: xwatch
Version: 2.11-8
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 09:49:09 -0400
Closes: 98891
Changes: 
 xwatch (2.11-8) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * src/xwatch.h: Add "#include <time.h>" to xwatch.h so it builds with
     current glibc (closes: #98891).

I see mine worked above.

Emacs users can use debian-changelog-mode.el from the dpkg-dev-el
package.  The closes: statements will be fontified when the sytax
is correct, and there's a function available from the menubar to
close bugs by number.

Peter