Re: Forwarding Bugreports
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 05:35:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 05:04:56PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > Isn't http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#forward self-contradictory?
> > | Make sure that the To field of your message to the author to has only
> > | the author(s) address(es) in it; put both the person who reported the
> > | bug and nnn-forwarded@bugs.debian.org in the CC field.
> > |
> > | Ask the author to preserve the CC to nnn-forwarded@bugs when they
> > | reply, so that the bug tracking system will file their reply with the
> > | original report.
> > |
> > | When the bug tracking system gets a message at nnn-forwarded it will
> > | mark the relevant bug as having been forwarded to the address(es) in
> > | the To field of the message it gets.
> >
> > What will happen? The author replies *to* *me* and CCs nnn-forwarded,
> > and according to the last quoted paragraph the BTS will mark the
> > bugreport as forwarded *to* *me*. Either the documentation of what
> > nnn-forwarded does or the description "how to forward a bug-report" is
> > wrong.
>
> If a bug is already marked as forwarded, then cc'ing -forwarded will log
> the message in the bug report but not change the forwarded-to address.
> The last quoted paragraph should probably be clarified to say "if the
> bug in question is not already marked as forwarded".
[...]
Thanks for the explanation. I'll submit a bugreport with patch against
doc-debian, or should I rather submit against www. or bugs.debian.org?
cu andreas
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