On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 12:17:25PM -0400, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: > The 'close' command has been deprecated since at least February 2002 [0], > and its use is strongly discouraged by ยง5.8.2 of the developers > 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. [1] > > After almost 20 years of deprecation, maybe it's time to finally drop > it? > Maybe it should be called "strongly discouraged" everywhere instead of deprecated, but there are uses for this command, I don't think we should drop it.
Cheers, Julien