Re: PW#5-12: New upload procedure
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Richard Braakman wrote:
> Christian Schwarz wrote:
> > 7.) [For source uploads only]
> > Close bug reports that are fixed with this package upload
> > (see below for details).
>
> I don't know if this has been considered yet:
>
> It is pretty easy to close the wrong bug by mistake. Reporting such a
> mistake was in fact my first interaction with a Debian developer.
>
> Should the installer check, before closing a bug, if that bug was
> reported to the source package (or one of its binary packages) that
> closes it?
>
> Such a check will cause a bit of work for the maintainer when a package
> changes names, but this will be pretty rare.
Yes, I think a package should never be able to automatically close bugs
that were filed against (or reassigned) against another package.
Perhaps it would be good to add to policy that a package maintainer should
reassign any bugs a package has to the new name when a package changes
names.
Remco
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