On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2021-08-26 03:51:03 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > As a counterexample, this bug is only being closed via Bcc, but it
> > should show up both in the log and in what the bugreport.cgi
> > displays.
>
> This is not the case. The "close" does not appear and actually
> corresponds to
>
> Reply sent to [email protected]:
> You have taken responsibility. (Thu, 26 Aug 2021 03:51:03 GMT) (full text,
> mbox, link).
Yes, that's what happens when you send a mail to -done. There's an
argument to be made that we should change that to something more
obvious, but that's what a close message has looked like for the past 20
years or so.
[...]
> the main page of the bug report should also display when some metadata
> (close status, tags, etc.) is changed.
Mail to -done is handled differently than a control message, and doesn't
cause a separate html message to be added to the log indicating that the
bug status has been changed.
> Actually, "the first mail message to be received is shown" does not
> seem to be how bugreport.cgi behaves in general. For instance, see
> Message #30. It is displayed on the main page, but this main page
> *also* shows 3 copies:
> * Message #32 ("Bug reopened")
> * Message #34 ("Changed Bug title to ...")
> * Message #36 ("Severity set to 'minor' from 'wishlist'")
Those are just the html that corresponds to the control commands which
were processed from message #30.
> I expect the same thing for "Bug closed", which is currently not the
> case.
It's reasonable to argue that it would be less surprising for the BTS to
handle -done like a control@ message, but that's a separate bug from
this bug.
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