Bastien Guerry <[email protected]> writes:

> Morgan Smith <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> The BARK issue tracker doesn't seem to like that I replied to myself
>> here to give a correction.
>
> As long as the In-Reply-To is in place, BARK will catch it.
>
> Delivery of emails to the GNU mailing lists is sometimes slow these
> days, due to various problems. We have to wait for the BARK command 
> to arrive *via* the mailing list to find out if it has worked.

This is a very old bug so the issue wasn't timing.

>From memory I belive this is what occured:

I sent the mail.  I had a local gcc'd copy which I then moved into
another folder.  Somewhere in that shenanigan's the message-id got
completly mangled (this was also at a point in time where I was messing
with gnus and icedove config stuff).

Then I replied to this local mangled message.  So the In-Reply-To was to
a "non-existant" message-id.

Basically, I think BARK is in the right and my setup was bad.


Slightly related, but tangential question now:

Marking this offshoot thread as "resolved" isn't quite right.  In theory
the correct thing to mark the offshoot thread as would be a "duplicate"
or to use the command "Superseded-by: <msg-id>" (I think.  Do correct me
if wrong.  This is your system, not mine :P).  However, the superseded
command is limited to maintainer use.

So I guess I actually have two questions:

Is the "Superseded-by: <msg-id>" part of the code working and ready for
use?

How come the "Superseded-by: <msg-id>" is limited to maintainers?  In
debbugs there is no limit on who can mark a bug as a duplicate.


I haven't actually tested anything.  I'm just going of off this
document:
https://codeberg.org/bzg/bark/src/branch/main/docs/bark-manual.org

> Thanks for taking care of closing resolved bugs/patches!

My pleasure!  I was actually waiting to see the list's response before
doing more as I was worried that I was creating clutter in the list.

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