Package: debbugs Version: 2.4.1 Colin Watson wrote:
> Chris Lamb wrote: > > How can I reliably distinguish between a new bug report and a followup on > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I think of a number of terrible heuristics, such as "Reportbug" in > > X-Mailer, a lack of "In-Reply-To" etc., but these are obviously bogus. > > Even grepping for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is rather fallible. > > > This is supposed to be what the X-Debian-PR-Message header is for, and > you can at least use it to distinguish between new/followup, forwarded, > and closed; you'll see 'report BUGNUM', 'forwarded BUGNUM', and 'closed > BUGNUM' respectively. *nod* > Annoyingly, it's not possible to distinguish between new and followup > this way. I think this is a bug. Would you file it, please? Doing so :) Regards, -- Chris Lamb, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 0x634F9A20
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