Closing a bug report, late, but elegantly

["Kumar Appaiah" <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in>]

Dear Debian mentors,

I had a bug in one of my packages, and I got a bug report with a
patch. However, upstream gave me another patched version, and that bug
doesn't exist anymore, but I forgot to add a "closes". How do I close
that bug now? Do I just use control to force close it, or do I add a
closes to my next upload (which I should've done long back!)?.

Thanks.

Kumar
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