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Bug#953911: debian-policy: clarify documentation of "Closes: #NNNNNN" changelog syntax



Hello Daniel,

On Sat 14 Mar 2020 at 06:14PM +00, Daniel Shahaf wrote:

> The documentation of the "Closes: #NNNNNN" changelog syntax describes
> the syntax in terms of a Perl regular expression.  However, not all
> readers know Perl.  I suggest to describe the semantics in English,
> in addition to or instead of the description in Perl.

How about including both the Perl and the English, to make things easier
for the maximum number of people?

Removing the Perl strikes me as deleting something which could be very
useful to someone (e.g. if they're writing a script of some kind).

-- 
Sean Whitton

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