On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: > Christian Schwarz wrote: > > 7.) [For source uploads only] > > Close bug reports that are fixed with this package upload > > (see below for details). > > I don't know if this has been considered yet: > > It is pretty easy to close the wrong bug by mistake. Reporting such a > mistake was in fact my first interaction with a Debian developer. > > Should the installer check, before closing a bug, if that bug was > reported to the source package (or one of its binary packages) that > closes it? > > Such a check will cause a bit of work for the maintainer when a package > changes names, but this will be pretty rare.
Yes, I think a package should never be able to automatically close bugs that were filed against (or reassigned) against another package. Perhaps it would be good to add to policy that a package maintainer should reassign any bugs a package has to the new name when a package changes names. Remco
