On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 06:22:38PM +0200, Loic Minier wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Tue, Aug 31, 2004: > > > > I think the mail server reference card is outdated, for two reasons: > > > - it states that you can't merge bugs which don't have the exact same > > > tags, but you can (see below), > > Where does it explicitly state that? I don't see it (and indeed it isn't > > true). > > Hmm, it seems I misunderstood the section on merge in the > server-control page (<http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control>) which > says: > > "Before bugs can be merged they must be in exactly the same state: > either all open or all closed, with the same forwarded-to upstream > author address or all not marked as forwarded, all assigned to the same > package or package(s) (an exact string comparison is done on the > package to which the bug is assigned), and all of the same severity. If > they don't start out in the same state you should use reassign, reopen > and so forth to make sure that they are before using merge. Titles are > not required to match, and will not be affected by the merge." > > While not strictly necessary, it would do no harm to say that the tags > other than upstream might differ.
Perhaps like that: Index: server-control.wml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/Bugs/server-control.wml,v retrieving revision 1.43 diff -u -r1.43 server-control.wml --- server-control.wml 17 Sep 2004 05:09:43 -0000 1.43 +++ server-control.wml 18 Sep 2004 14:25:28 -0000 @@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ If they don't start out in the same state you should use <code>reassign</code>, <code>reopen</code> and so forth to make sure that they are before using <code>merge</code>. Titles are not required -to match, and will not be affected by the merge.</p> +to match, and will not be affected by the merge. Tags are not required +to match, too, they will be joined.</p> <P>If any of the bugs listed in a <code>merge</code> command is already merged with another bug then all the reports merged with any of the Proposals for better wording welcome. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/
