On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:02:50PM +0200, Gert Wollny wrote:
> Dear all, 
> 
> a bug [1] was files against the the package (mia) I'm preparing that can
> not really be fixed within this package, because the actual bug [2] is
> in another, required package. Considering the ongoing freeze of wheezy,
> [2] may not be fixed soon, but I have a workaround in mia, that makes
> [1] disappear. 
> 
> Somehow "Closing" the bug doesn't sound right, because the problem is
> still persistent. I also set [1] blocked by [2].
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705385
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705495
> 
> So my question is: How would I mark this in the changelog of a new
> upload,

In such cases I write "see: #nnnnnn" instead of "closes: #nnnnnn", and so far
nobody complained about this approach. :-)

> and in what way should I comment this in the bug report (beyond
> of what I already commented)? 

I would write something like "I included a temporary workaround for this bug in
mia version ...".

Regards,

Bart Martens


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