Re: closes: in changelog and closing bug reports...
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:55:02PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> I have the following in my changelog:
>
> * New maintainer (closes: #98251)
> * Install upstream man page (closes: #93474)
> * Removed Suggests: wmaker (closes: #82998)
>
> however the bugs weren't closed automatically. Might it be because of:
>
> * Not uploaded, found new upstream release
>
> (I made another new version, and only uploaded then. So this was never
> the "topmost paragraph". Might that be the problem?)
Yes. Have a look at the -v option to dpkg-buildpackage.
> I guess I should just close them "by hand" then, but am wondering why
> this happens, is "Closes:" case sensitive?
No.
Julian
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