* Jonathan Kamens <j...@kamens.us> [230925 12:56]: > Closed bugs are available for direct search for 30 days after they're > closed. > > After that you can still search them by selecting either "Archived" or > "Archived and Unarchived" under "Misc Options" on the search page.
Except that in the general case, this is not very useful for avoiding the duplicated filing of a bug that has already been discussed and rejected. > All that aside, in this particular case I closed the bug because it wasn't > actually a bug, but rather a PEBKAC issue (user complaining that a program > wasn't respecting his locale when he had LC_ALL set to "C" so he was > essentially telling the program to ignore his locale). That is a very good reason to close the bug. Your original message did not refer to the bug or even the package, so I had no knowledge of the details. ...Marvin
