Bug#269189: Mail server reference card is outdated

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:41:27AM +0200, Loic Minier wrote:
> Package: www.debian.org
> Severity: minor
> 
>      Hi,
> 
>  I think the mail server reference card is outdated, for two reasons:
>  - it states that you can't merge bugs which don't have the exact same
>    tags, but you can (see below),

Where does it explicitly state that? I don't see it (and indeed it isn't
true).

>  - it seems you can include multiple tags on the same "tags" line, but
>    there is some mis-parsing.
> 
>  Now to give an example of the above problems, I was about to merge
>  197265 and 269115, with this:
>  tags 269115 +patch +upstream
>  merge 197265 269115
>  thanks
> 
>  But got:
>  > tags 269115 +patch +upstream
>  Unknown tag/s: +upstream.
>  Recognized are: patch wontfix moreinfo unreproducible fixed potato
>  woody sid help security upstream pending sarge sarge-ignore
>  experimental d-i confirmed ipv6 lfs fixed-in-experimental
>  fixed-upstream l10n.
> 
>  Which is surprising: it seems the tag is somehow parsed, but the fact
>  that it has a leading + doesn't match the list.

I wonder if we're looking at the same version of the text. The current
version includes examples:

tags bugnumber [ + | - | = ] tag [ tag ... ]
    Sets tags for the bug report #bugnumber. No notification is sent to the
    user who reported the bug. Setting the action to + means to add each given
    tag, - means to remove each given tag, and = means to ignore the current
    tags and set them afresh to the list provided. The default action is
    adding.

    Example usage:

            # same as 'tags 123456 + patch'
            tags 123456 patch

            # same as 'tags 123456 + help security'
            tags 123456 help security

            # add 'fixed' and 'pending' tags
            tags 123456 + fixed pending

            # remove 'unreproducible' tag
            tags 123456 - unreproducible

            # set tags to exactly 'moreinfo' and 'unreproducible'
            tags 123456 = moreinfo unreproducible

So, 'tags 269115 +patch +upstream' as you tried is a syntax error: you
should use 'tags 269115 + patch upstream' instead.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]