On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> That's exactly what I said and why I offered proposed the secondary
> more ideal solution, which would be to not close bugs that are
> assigned to different packages than the upload itself. Is there a
> reason not to do that?

There are some bugs (like wnpp bugs) which are closed by an upload in
a different package, for example. It seems reasonable to send out a
warning, but I don't want to disallow it.
 
> Point being that it's rather easy to forget ordering relevance, and
> it's not very intuitive anyway. Would it be possible to define
> something akin to aritmetic operator ordering (i.e. addition follows
> multiplication).

Each control line operates in isolation; changing that would require a
huge redesign of how control works, and would also make it much more
brittle.


Don Armstrong

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