Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: wishlist I often see submitters wrongly following-up to a bug and describing symptoms that are superficially similar to the original, but (to me as maintainer) obviously a separate bug.
I can ask them to open a separate bug, or I can forward the message to submit@bugs and the use 'submitter' to make it their bug, but it is somewhat prone to failure. It would be very useful to have a command that would turn a message on an existing bug into a new bug. Ideally, the submitter, title, etc. would be taken from that message as if it had been sent to submit@bugs. This would also send a notification to the follow-up submitter that they have a new bug number. I assume that actually moving messages would be problematic, so perhaps the message could be copied and then hidden-by-default in the original bug report? It would also be useful to be able to copy multiple messages when doing this, in case there were replies to the erroneous follow-up. But that's relatively unimportant. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (100, 'proposed-updates'), (100, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
