Missing information on http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control

[Erik Schnetter <schnetter@aei.mpg.de>]

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I was recently trying to find out how to close a bug report that I sent.  
I reported the bug via "reportbug", and it was at first unclear to me 
whether and how I could interact with the bug tracking system -- I was 
first looking for a web interface, but there is apparently none.

On http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control I then found out how I 
could close it, namely with the "close" instruction, but also that this 
instruction was deprecated.  However, there was no other instruction 
that would close the bug.  I decided to use this instruction 
nonetheless.

Only later I found out that the page 
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer also contains information on how 
to handle bug reports, and indeed a way to close bug reports that are 
not deprecated.  Apart from a missing beginner's guide that gives an 
overview that does not assume that one knows expressions like "NMU" or 
"BTS" by heart, it would be nice to have an explanation on how to close 
bug reports near the "close" command: Don't just tell people what not 
to do, tell them also what to do instead.

Thanks,
Learning more every day,
- -erik

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