Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?
Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
> ]] Russ Allbery
> (Cc to owner@bugs, M-F-T to -project.)
>> Note that we already did do something about it by deprecating close in the
>> BTS in favor of sending a real email message to -done that is copied to
>> the submitter. The Debian BTS now nags the maintainer about telling the
>> submitter something if they use the close command.
> We did this ages ago. Perhaps it's time to retire the close command
> entirely?
It's useful in some specific situations when you're doing mass bug
manipulation (I've used it for that purpose) that's really just
book-keeping and doesn't need to notify anyone. But they're fairly
limited, and mostly one wants the fixed command instead anyway.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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