Re: Bug#285381: debian-policy: duplicate bug reports: close or merge?
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 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. [...]
The maintainer should decide about this.
Keeping a bug open for the sole purpose of notifying the reporter when
it's fixed does not seem very correct to me. A much better approach would
be that the BTS allows anybody to subscribe to a given bug report.
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