Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on wiki.debian.org
On Sat 18 May 2019 at 20:22:54 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 30 dec 18, 17:30:24, Andrea Borgia wrote:
> > Il 30/12/18 17:09, Brian ha scritto:
> >
> >
> > > I am unfamiliar with the bts (?) method so cannot offer advice.
> >
> > I suspect the isse was the empty subject line but that error message was
> > a hell of a convoluted way to say so :)
>
> Just for the archives, the 'close' command was deprecated, IIUC because
> it was too easy to close a bug without providing any reason.
I cannot find anything referring to this deprecation. Indeed, we see
> nnn-close is provided as an alias for nnn-done
at
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer
That has been said since 1997.
I agree that providing a reason should be the norm. However, I have
just closed one of my bugs with nnn-close@ without giving a reason.
Not that I am proud of it!
--
Brian.
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