Re: Closing bugs in another developer's package
Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:
> Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org> wrote last week:
> > > What's protocol on closing bugs in someone else's package when it's
> > > clear that the bugs were actually fixed (in a maintainer release or by
> > > the circumstances around the bug changing) some time ago but stayed open
> > > in the tracking system?
>
> If I opened the bug originally, and it's clear to me that the condition
> no longer exists, I feel free to close it. [Mostly, this only happens
> when I have unusual hardware that prevents the maintainer from ever
> having reproduced the bug in the first place.]
Just to clarify, I didn't write that text that was attributed to me above,
I quoted it in reply to the original author, Zed Pobre.
Martin.
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