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

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> Right, and I agree.
> While we are discussing the rexpr to be used, I'd ask to please consider
> using:
> 	/close[s]? \s* = \s* (?:bug)? \s* \# (\d+)/ix
> 
> Matches:
> 	close=#1234   
> 	close =
> 	   #97531
> 	Closes = Bug#5678 and also close=#8765
> 	CLOSE= BUG #9090
> but not:
> 	I can't close bug#8642
> 	close only part of #1480
> 	close=# 246

Hmm, this sounds as if you want to put the closes= stuff in the body of the
changelog, like:

pdmenu (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed permissions problem. close=#1234 closes=#1235

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>  Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:12:36 -0400

Hmm, but my proposal was to put the closes= on the first line, like:

pdmenu (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low closes=1234,1235
                                                                           
  * Fixed permissions problem.
                                                                 
 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>  Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:12:36 -0400

So why the need for a complicated regexp that matches lots of variation?

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