On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Adam P. Harris wrote: > Who has authority to mess around with the bug report? From > <URL:http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.html>, it looks like any > developer who gets a mind to is "authorized". Is this something that's > possible but not recommended? > > Possible answers: > * anyone! > * any debian developer > * package maintainer, and Debian-QA list > > I'm wondering because I've been going through the bug lists a lot lately, > and sometimes I get an urge to "merge" two bug reports together since > they're clearly identical. However, I never do this since I'm not the > package mainteainer.
The bug system contains no authorization for manipulating bugs (it assumes the confirmation e-mails sent out for closes and such are sufficient). For the most part, I expect maintainers don't mind if you do useful things with their bug reports (like merge duplicates and such). I know I don't mind if someone else comes around and points out non-bugs or changes status on my bugs or whatever. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
