Bug#696137: Wrong handling of pure ITP and pure ITA bug reports by your automatic WNPP script
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Control: owner -1 Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>
Hi Lucas,
Your script which automatically changes ITPs into RFPs and ITAs into
O bugs has an annoying bug:
It even changes bugs which where an ITP initially into RFP, which IMHO
is quite wrong, and -- as I saw today and even worse -- it changes
initial ITAs into O without the package ever being orphaned:
http://bugs.debian.org/696137
At least for me, those mails are definitely way more annoying than
helpful, at least in these cases. (IIRC I also already saw initial
RFAs which ended up as O despite they never were O before, but I'm not
sure in this case.)
So please change that script and refrain from changing initial ITAs
and ITPs into anything else.
If your really think these should be handled automatically (I don't
FTR), then close them, or better, just do a ping asking for a progress
report.
But please don't change these bug reports to something they never
were, especially not with phrases like "changing back from ITA to O"
which is just untrue and confusing.
TIA.
Regards, Axel
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