Bug#285381: debian-policy: duplicate bug reports: close or merge?
reassign 285381 developers-reference
thanks
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:17:19AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.6.1.1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Please make a policy on if duplicate bug reports should be closed or merged.
> Bob and Bill send reports on essentially the same bug.
> The maintainer closes Bill's instead of merging.
> Bill feels bad, and will not get notice when the bug is eventually
> fixed too!
Clearly merging is correct and closing is incorrect. Tell the
maintainer concerned this information. This should appear in the
developers reference, not in policy (which has nothing to say about
bug handling at all), so reassigning this bug.
Julian
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