On 2 January 2012 16:59, Christian PERRIER <[email protected]> wrote: >> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401974 >> >> Did you CC the submitter with your response to that one? By default >> submitters do not receive messages sent to [email protected] [1]. > > > By experience in triaging bugs, there are about zero chances that you > get a useful answer for such bugs where the original useful > information should have been sent immediately when the bug was > reported. > > So, well, the only useful action is probably closing the bug with a > nce message explaining that we are sorry for not reacting when the bug > was reported and suggesting to reopen the bug if the bug submitter > still experiences the issue. You get the point, I think...:) > > I closed a few dozens of bugs in samba, this way (most of them were > indeed quite obviously user configuration errors, though, which might > be less common for aptitude). >
Thanks for the pointer. I have been replying to some bugs like that requesting info and using usertags to track which so that I can close them after a month or so. I might take to just closing them with the nice message as you suggest. _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
