Re: Closing BUGS on a package's changelog
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:21:53PM +0100, Mark Brown 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.
That's also true, because those things are also noise in the changelog.
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