On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:45:53PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I just had a bug that I opened (#339832) closed by a changelog entry in > a new debconf upload. This is apparently a typo, as the changelog entry > claims that the bug it was closing was related to a Swedish translation > update. > > My bug was a wishlist bug against gmessage asking for it to become an > alternative to xmessage. > > Is there a way to not allow changelog entries to automatically close > bugs assigned to other packages? This seems like it might require > modifying some infrastructure, but I am not sure what are the affected > components or what I can do to help.
Aaah, changelog typos. Brings back memories or trampling all over people's bugs with a quick slip of the finger... If you have a look at the message sent to 339832-close@, the close message does actually state the source package which closes the bug, so I think the fix is to make debbugs recognise Source: pseudo-headers in messages sent to -close@ and only close the bug if the values match. I could have sworn something like that was already done, but it fairly obviously isn't (at least not for Source: pseudo-headers). Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is dig through the Perl code in merkel:/org/bugs.debian.org/scripts and work out how to add this functionality. <grin> - Matt
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