On Sat 18 May 2019 at 20:22:54 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 30 dec 18, 17:30:24, Andrea Borgia wrote: > > Il 30/12/18 17:09, Brian ha scritto: > > > > > > > I am unfamiliar with the bts (?) method so cannot offer advice. > > > > I suspect the isse was the empty subject line but that error message was > > a hell of a convoluted way to say so :) > > Just for the archives, the 'close' command was deprecated, IIUC because > it was too easy to close a bug without providing any reason.
I cannot find anything referring to this deprecation. Indeed, we see > nnn-close is provided as an alias for nnn-done at https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer That has been said since 1997. I agree that providing a reason should be the norm. However, I have just closed one of my bugs with nnn-close@ without giving a reason. Not that I am proud of it! -- Brian.