Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

[joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

Andreas Jellinghaus writes:

> > > > Topic 4: Announcing new packages before uploading them
> > > 
> > > we should stop announcing and let a script on master do this.
> > 
> > And according to James' oppionion this script should also close
> > the referring bugs - opposite to closing bugs while uploading.
> 
> if we want an automatic method to close bugs, the installer script
> should handle it (bugs should be closed, after installing the package in
> the ftp tree, not before).

seconded.

> i will like an automatic method to close bugs.

Let's take a look at the .changes files.  Normally all information
is covered there.  Normally closed bugs are mentioned in the
Changes: section.  So Guys script should look for #(\d+) and
close $1 after proceeding (speaking in Perl).

Regards

	Joey

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