For a brief period of time, the way to close a bug on package
upload was to add a "closes" header to the changelog entry, e.g.:
nqc (2.0.2-2) unstable; closes=50669; urgency=low
* New upstream documentation. Fixes Bug#50669. Thanks to Jim Studt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for reporting this.
-- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 20 Nov 1999 01:11:32 -0500
Modern lintian complains about this, with
syntax-error-in-debian-changelog "unknown key-value key Closes -
copying to XS-Closes". I'm not eager to "change history" by
deleting the closes keyword or by changing the entry to use the
newer "Closes: #xyz" syntax, although I certainly could do so.
Could lintian be changed to accept this keyword? Perhaps it
could just accept it for changelog entries before some date.
--
Ben Pfaff
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web: http://benpfaff.org
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