Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:22:03PM +0100, Ersek, Laszlo a écrit : > > v > To: 567196-d...@bugs.debian.org, Rogério Brito > Cc: 563...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: alternative accepted by submitter > > Package: lbzip2 > Version: 0.20-1 > Tags: wontfix > thanks Dear Laszlo, in the above examp

Indicating the resolution of a closed bug report (was: help with BTS mail interface)

2010-01-29 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > Kumar Appaiah writes: > > >> "Closing with a wontfix tag" is something which people do, but I > >> personally don't prefer. […] > > What, then, should be the tag applied for “not a bug” or otherwise > > invalid reports? > > In Debian, the standard

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > Kumar Appaiah writes: >> "Closing with a wontfix tag" is something which people do, but I >> personally don't prefer. "wontfix", IMHO, should be reserved for >> something like a potential problem or misfeature, which you >> acknowledge, but don't want to fix, at least for no

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Ben Finney
Kumar Appaiah writes: > "Closing with a wontfix tag" is something which people do, but I > personally don't prefer. "wontfix", IMHO, should be reserved for > something like a potential problem or misfeature, which you > acknowledge, but don't want to fix, at least for now. I can see the logic of

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Ersek, Laszlo
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: Ignoring for now the anomaly of closing a wontfix bug, which Kumar has already addressed, this is what I would send to achieve this result. I'll do this. Thank you both very much, lacos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.d

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:22:03PM +0100, Ersek, Laszlo wrote: > need, I'd like to close the bug with a wontfix tag. My question to > the mentors list is the following: (1) what addresses should I put > in the To: field, and (2) how should I format the body of my > message, so that (a) the bug gets

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 08:34:49AM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: [snipped OP's exampl > Won't work. :-) Check one of the several bugs which were just "closed" > from the BTS. Randomly, I'll point you to this one: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547220#14 By "won't work", what I

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Hi! Let me address each point separately. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:22:03PM +0100, Ersek, Laszlo wrote: > Rogério Brito has submitted a wishlist bug report for lbzip2 [3]. As > Rogério has accepted my proposal to use an external tool for his > need, I'd like to close the bug with a wontfix tag.

help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Ersek, Laszlo
Dear Mentors, I've read some notes on how to use the Debian BTS via email [0] [1] [2], but I am still a bit confused. Rogério Brito has submitted a wishlist bug report for lbzip2 [3]. As Rogério has accepted my proposal to use an external tool for his need, I'd like to close the bug with a w