Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Charles> foo (1.0-2) unstable; urgency=low, closes=10002 11930 10109 > > Right you are. In his infinite wisdom, the designer (Ian?) has already > considered the possibility of multipe keyword value pairs.
I have to agree that this design seems much far better than the "hack" of embedding commands in comments. But this needs absolutely the opinion of Ian and/or Klee. Not only dinstall, but also all other programs that use the changelogfile must be modifyed, and back-compatibility have to be studied well. The fact that the original design of the changelog format included the possibility of expanding the syntax doesn't imply that this is possible or easy to do now. I've seen also, in another posting, that dpkg-parsechangelog was rejecting the closes= statement, changing to X-closes= or somethink like it. This seems to me that the use of this sintax needs the modification of dpkg etc. We absolutely need to hear Ian. The other possibility is simply to add to dinstall a parser that extract the command embedded in the comments inside the changelog file and uses that information to build a CC line for the "installed" message it already sends back to the maintainer. (finds close=#1234 in the comment and builds CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This maybe is not a so polite design, but doesn't need _any_ change in dpkg software, but only in dinstall on master. I feel this solution as the most practical and of quicker put in use. There is another implicit advantage in using this "hack": there will be no different treatment between bugs closed in the old way and bugs closed automagically in the changelog file (mailing list and submitters will receive the message); On the contrary we all know how a differently implemented closing system (via [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ended in working in such a way that the submitters are simply notificated without automatically receiveing a message explaining why. My fear was that adding a third method to close a bug would end in a third behaviour of the bug-track system. Fabrizio -- > ====================================================================== > > 3.2.3 debian/changelog > > It is not possible to > specify an urgency containing commas; commas are used to separate > keyword=value settings in the dpkg changelog format (though there is > currently only one useful keyword, urgency). > Fabrizio -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pluto Leader - Debian Developer & Happy Debian 1.3.1 User - vi-holic | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E > Just because Red Hat do it doesn't mean it's a good idea. [Ian J.]
