Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 12:12:24PM -0400, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: > The 'bts done' command uses the 'close' control command to close bug > reports. This command has been deprecated for almost 20 years (since at > least February 2002) [0,1] and goes against the best practices set out > in §5.8.2 of the developer's reference: > > You should never close bugs via the bug server close command sent to > cont...@bugs.debian.org. If you do so, the original submitter will > not receive any information about why the bug was closed. [2] > > Please use nnn-d...@bugs.debian.org instead.
I really disagree.
There are uses of closing a bug without notifying anybody, and I really
want `bts` to retain that use.
If you are going to do something notifying people, you already really
ought to write a longer mail, at that point you may as well send the
mail to nnnn-done@ yourself, IMHO.
> Similarly, the undocumented command 'bts close' should be dropped.
funnily enough, I don't think I ever used `bts done` but I used
`bts close` many times :D I never even realized it was undocumented…
(fwiw, I also normally mail nnnn-close@ instead of nnnn-done@, "done"
is just too hard on my mind since I really want to close a bug, not
"mark it as done", whatever that means.)
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