Hello, The WNPP page [1] currently has a paragraph that says: Attention: You can not reassign, retitle, or set the owner of bug reports by mailing the report number @bugs.debian.org, nor by filing new reports. You have to send an appropriate message to the BTS control bot — read the instructions for it! This is no longer correct. Don Armstrong added the ability to use Control pseudo-headers [2] this past July. I have prepared a patch based on the files in CVS to fix this issue. I read through the various documentation, but I did not find a better way to submit patches. Please let me know if I overlooked something or if any changes are needed for the patch. Also, I do feel a little uncomfrtable linking to a non-Debian website, but I was unable to find these changes documented elsewhere (probably a bug in need of a patch). Thanks, Nathan Handler (nhandler) [1]: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ [2]: http://www.donarmstrong.com/posts/control_at_submit/
Index: english/devel/wnpp/index.wml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/wnpp/index.wml,v retrieving revision 1.38 diff -u -r1.38 index.wml --- english/devel/wnpp/index.wml 29 Feb 2012 23:04:40 -0000 1.38 +++ english/devel/wnpp/index.wml 12 Nov 2012 01:55:36 -0000 @@ -362,12 +362,12 @@ <tt>(closes: bug#nnnnn)</tt> to it. This way the bug will be closed automatically after the new package gets installed into the archive.</p> -<p><strong>Attention:</strong> You can <strong>not</strong> reassign, -retitle, or set the owner of bug reports by mailing the report number -@bugs.debian.org, -<strong>nor</strong> by filing new reports. You have to send an appropriate -message to the BTS control bot — <a href="$(HOME)/Bugs/server-control"> -read the instructions for it</a>!</p> +<p><strong>Attention:</strong> If you need to reassign, retitle, or set the +owner of bug reports, you must do so by emailing the BTS control bot +<a href="$(HOME)/Bugs/server-control">directly</a> or by emailing the report +number @bugs.debian.org and using +<a href="http://www.donarmstrong.com/posts/control_at_submit/";>Control +pseudo-headers</a>.</p> <p>Note: If a package remains orphaned for a very long time, we will examine the situation to determine if the package is needed anymore — if not,
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