On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 03:26:32PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 07/01/2017 02:17 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 02:11:43PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> Wouldn't it be more appropriate to use "fixed -1 0.0.9-1" rather than > >> closing the bug completely? The bug is still present in the unstable > >> package after all. > > > > When the BTS has enough information for doing version tracking > > it is irrelevant whether the bug is open or closed. > > > > Similar to an upload to unstable closing a bug, where the BTS also > > knows when the closed bug is still in testing. > > That is all correct. But that only works if the package upload in > experimental would have actually closed a bug which it didn't. > > So this mechanism doesn't work here.
The BTS does not care whether the closing email was sent automatically due to an upload or manually by a human. The important part is the Version: in the email closing the bug. > Adrian cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed