On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 19:18:23 -0800, [email protected] wrote: > Hey Tim, > > On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 14:55:01 -0500 Tim McConnell > <[email protected]> wrote: > > THis can be closed Boxes works now > > Please reply to this bug report with "closing #1036035" in the subject > line. This will automatically close this bug out.
This is not the documented way to close bugs in the Debian bug tracking system (for that, please see <https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer>). Changing the subject line so that it doesn't mention the relevant package or a short summary of a bug is generally harmful: package maintainers will often see messages to bugs completely out-of-context, in an inbox containing thousands of other messages, particularly if they are members of large teams like GNOME. If I see a message with a subject line like Re: Bug#1036035: gnome-boxes: can't launch since upgrading Kernel to 6.1.0-9 then I know whether this message is relevant to my current work and I have an idea of how serious or minor it is, but if I see a message with a subject like Re: Bug#1036035: bug 1036035 then I have no idea what's going on until I go and look it up (which I won't always have the time available to do). So please keep informative subject lines - they're there for a reason - and don't overwrite them with information intended for machines, especially if the format isn't one that those machines will actually read. Thanks, smcv
