On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Daniel Leidert <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 19.05.2009, 15:39 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille: >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:58:54PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=529292 >> > >> > How should I handle that ? >> > I mean, once bug #529292 is fixed/closed, what should be the >> > reference in debian/changelog to explain that ? Should it simply be >> > "Closes: #529193 ?" >> >> No, the bug should not be closed (because the problem is not >> solved). You should arather reassign the bug to the other package >> and merge the bugs. > > Depends. If people will tend to report the bug against the package > FTBFSing, although the reason might be in a different package, the > report should not be reassigned (clone and reassign it to the correct > package). Instead leave it open and declare a "blocked by".
Done. I did not see the 'block by' option, thanks. > Then simply close it as soon as the situation is fixed by sending a mail > to [email protected]. The blocking bug was fixed a couple of hours ago, so I simply updated the debian/changelog to use the proper revision up to patchlevel. Thanks, -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
