On Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 06:34:57PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > I would prefer `close', `closes' OR `closed' (but obviously only one > > Anyways, we had this discussion a few times already. As I remember from > last time, you (Ian) were the only one who preferred `closes'.
I also was on that side and, if memory still supports me, I told it. > > Which term do the others prefer? closes > > > > * Relaxed syntax of pattern which detects `fixes' lines: spaces are > > > allowed in some places, pattern is case-insensitive, "bug" can be > > > omitted > > > > I disagree most strongly. Use of a strict pattern is not just to > > avoid accidents; it also promotes careful behaviour. > > The reason to relax the syntax was that a) people said it's hard to > remember the strict syntax since it's somewhat `unnatural' and b) it's not > a big problem if a bug gets closed by accident. c) editors can break a line after a punctuation mark like : or a coma. please allow blanks there and let multirow parsing. If Ian wants anyway to modify dpkg-parsechangelog or dpkg-genchanges, then the proposal (already discarded) to have a pre-parsing at build time, revealing the bug numbers to be closed, could be re-considered. Fabrizio -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Líder Minimo del Pluto - Debian Developer & Happy Debian User | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E > more than 34 months are needed to get rid of the millennium. [me]
