Re: What does "Control: reassign -1 libaqbanking44" mean?
On 2021-03-12 02:13 -0400, Tony Rowe wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 12:36:59PM +0900, 황병희 wrote:
>> Hi i am translator Debain webpage in Korean.
>>
>> At bug mailing,
>> some user wrote in body of message [1] as below:
>>
>> #+begin_src text
>> Control: reassign -1 libaqbanking44
>> #+end_src
>>
>> In particular, i am curious the digit "-1".
>> For long time i was thinking about that the "-1".
>>
>> Is that "subtraction"? or another meaning?
>>
>> Oh please really my head is stiff..
>>
>> Sincerely, Byung-Hee
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=984980
>>
>> --
>> ^고맙습니다 _地平天成_ 감사합니다_^))//
>
> Hi Byung-Hee,
>
> "-1" refers to making "one clone" of the bug report and is issued to
> the control server, usually by the packager of the package (as I
> understand it). [1]
No, in this context it means "the bug you are replying to".
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.html#control
Cheers,
Sven
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