Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Maybe a slightly stricter syntax for closing bugs, so I may > mention things like "This is similar to Bug#12345 on package xyz. We > are still lokking for a solution". > > Maybe the check should eb for "This closes Bug#*** BUG#***" > (concatenatnig the line before the match, of course). This will > prevent spurious bug closures, and does not impose a major burden on > package maintainers.
I don't like overloading the changelog like this (no, I don't use release). How about extending the changelog format so we have a field for closed bugs? Something like: foo (1.0-2) unstable; urgency=low closes=10002,11930,10109 * Fix wibble() and splat() to not use bar(). -- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:34:42 -0500 Then you don't have to worry about inaverdently closing bugs, and you don't have any nastly looking thing in the changelog. -- see shy jo
