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

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