On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 06:00:51PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > A script to convert eg. > > * New upstream release .* (Closes: #1, #2, #3) > > to > > * New upstream release \1 > * fixed "BTS summary line of #1" Closes: #1 > * fixed "BTS summary line of #2" Closes: #2 > * fixed "BTS summary line of #3" Closes: #3 > > in changelogs would probably go a lot further to correcting this very minor > issue than reopening dozens of bug reports that belong closed, annoying users > with BTS garbage, and repeating the same thread on debian-devel over and over.
One big problem with this approach is that the same maintainers who are too lazy to write proper entries for bug-closers in their changelog entries are going to be too lazy to ensure that a bug report has a meaningful summary in the first place. -- G. Branden Robinson | America is at that awkward stage. Debian GNU/Linux | It's too late to work within the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | system, but too early to shoot the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | bastards. -- Claire Wolfe
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