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Re: Closing BUGS on a package's changelog



On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:45:52PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 01:37:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> > >  * Fixed in previous upload: Closes #xxx, #yyy, #zzz

> > That makes no sense to me; it's just noise in the changelog (and it
> > doesn't tell the submitter anything useful, since it doesn't say *how*

> Hear, hear. The real reason why a bug was closed should always be listed.
> In detail if necessary, there's no byte limit on changelogs!

Many people seem to have forgotten that it's possible to close bugs by
methods other than the changelog.  "Not a bug: closes: #xxxx" and so on.

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