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Re: useless lintian error?



On 28/09/16 10:55, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi mentors,
> I did a doona upload, with "closes #foo" in changelog, getting
> a lintian error:
> 
> E possible-missing-colon-in-closes
> closes #838630
> 
> since the bug is closed

It doesn't look closed to me.

> because the system closes bugs even without the colon, isn't this time to drop
> that error?

The uses 'Closes:' with a colon to close bugs is required by Policy
(section 4.4).

James

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