On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:17:26PM +0200, Erik Schnetter wrote: > On http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control I then found out how I > could close it, namely with the "close" instruction, but also that this > instruction was deprecated. However, there was no other instruction > that would close the bug. I decided to use this instruction > nonetheless. > > Only later I found out that the page > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer also contains information on how > to handle bug reports, and indeed a way to close bug reports that are > not deprecated. Apart from a missing beginner's guide that gives an > overview that does not assume that one knows expressions like "NMU" or > "BTS" by heart, it would be nice to have an explanation on how to close > bug reports near the "close" command: Don't just tell people what not > to do, tell them also what to do instead.
Hmm, this isn't completely true, since the solution is mentioned there "(in contrast to mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED])" but you're right that it isn't really obvious. I will add links to Developer#closing to the references of the close command. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/
