Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place

2015-12-21 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I am just saying that via a mechanical reading of the documents, one cannot tell which items only allow / should have one vs. more arguments. I just wish the docs would say how many. JM> That being said, it has already been shown the "address" part of the JM> command can be arbitrary text, so you

Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place

2015-12-21 Thread James McCoy
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:54:40AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > By the way one might be surprised that there could be two of these > > $ w3m -dump http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718840 | grep > Found > Found in versions apt-show-versions/0.22.1, apt-show-versions/0.22.7 >

Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place

2015-12-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
By the way one might be surprised that there could be two of these $ w3m -dump http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718840 | grep Found Found in versions apt-show-versions/0.22.1, apt-show-versions/0.22.7 based on found bug [version] Indicate that a bug was found

Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place

2015-12-17 Thread James McCoy
On Dec 13, 2015 6:06 AM, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" wrote: >forwarded bug address >Mark the bug as forwarded to the given address (usually an email >address or a URL for an upstream bug tracker). > > Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded

Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place

2015-12-17 Thread Nicholas Bamber
James, I agree that I can see no need to support multiple forwarding addresses. However it turns out we currently support that. As a test this bug has been forwarded to two locations. Currently this bug is asking for that to be documented. On 17/12/15 14:17, James McCoy

Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place

2015-12-17 Thread James McCoy
On Dec 17, 2015 12:57 PM, "Nicholas Bamber" wrote: > > James, > I agree that I can see no need to support multiple forwarding addresses. However it turns out we currently support that. If by "support", you mean we don't do any verification of what the "forwarded"

Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place

2015-12-17 Thread Nicholas Bamber
On 17/12/15 19:29, James McCoy wrote: On Dec 17, 2015 12:57 PM, "Nicholas Bamber" > wrote: > > James, > I agree that I can see no need to support multiple forwarding addresses. However it turns out we currently support that. If

Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place

2015-12-17 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
reassign 807810 bugs.debian.org thanks OK I'll reassign this bug, in the hope that on https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control they will add some policy statement about what to do when one wants to mark a bug forwarded to more than one place, for whatever unexpected reason that might come up.

Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place

2015-12-17 Thread Nicholas Bamber
I don't think that quite follows. I was not suggesting that bugs.debian.org change anything. But they might lock it down in the future. So if we document precisely how things work now we would be overdocumenting the system. On 17/12/15 23:05, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: reassign 807810

Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place

2015-12-17 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "NB" == Nicholas Bamber writes: NB> I don't think that quite follows. I was not suggesting that NB> bugs.debian.org change anything. But they might lock it down in the NB> future. So if we document precisely how things work now we would be NB> overdocumenting the

Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place

2015-12-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: devscripts Version: 2.15.9 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man1/bts.1.gz forwarded bug address Mark the bug as forwarded to the given address (usually an email address or a URL for an upstream bug tracker). Mention what if one wants to mark the bug