> > [As an aside, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than control's > "close" command, so that submitters receive an explanation] >
Does Guy's hack to dpkg-dev do this? I close most of my bugs via my changelog. > A large fraction of the "Maintainer Unknown" bug reports > (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ma/l-28_unknown-29_.html) are about packages > that are no longer in Debian. I'm not sure there is concensus about closing > them. > > Closing them appeals to my sense of tidyness, but keeping them open makes > them available for future maintainers to pick up. > It would be nice to make the BTS more aware of the archive. That way "dead" packages are noted as "not closed, but not really valid". I agree with leaving them so later developers might choose to pick them up and close them. But others (like libc4) should just be trashed.
