Re: Fixed bugs

[Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:45:52AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 09:42:25AM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> > * Martin Michlmayr
> >> Also, some sponsors upload packages in a (wrong) way which tags
> >> bugs as "fixed" instead of closing them properly.
>  
> >   I suspect this may be caused by the sponsorship page, which
> >  instructs the sponsor to rebuild the sponsored package using
> >  "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -m'Happy Sponsor <nice@foo.bar>'".
>  
> >   Naturally, this will be interpreted as a NMU, hence the fixed tag.
>  
> >   The correct would be to replace -m'Happy Sponsor ..' with
> >  -k0x<sponsor's PGP key ID>;  then changelog-closed bugs would be
> >  closed properly. 
> 
> Either that or building with -uc -us and using debsign afterwards.
> (Both debsign -k0x<sponsor's PGP key ID> and -m'Happy Sponsor ..'
> work correctly).
> 
> I prefer this way, and it is the one deverloper's reference suggests.

I'm confused.  Here's what I understand from the above:

Tore says that -m'Happy Sponsor <nice@foo.bar>' will cause bugs to
be tagged fixed instead of closed.

Andreas says that -m'Happy Sponsor <nice@foo.bar>' will cause bugs
to be closed instead of tagged fixed.

Would the real -m'Happy Sponsor <nice@foo.bar>' please stand up?

Matt
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