On Thu, 22 May 2003, Brian Nelson wrote: > If you don't do this, the original bug submitters will see a bug has > been fixed, but probably not remember what the bug was, especially if he > or she filed multiple bugs for the package. Furthermore, it's a real > pain to have to look at the BTS, and then search through the upstream > changelog to find the corresponding fix.
That's the wrong reason. Consider the admin, who discovers some bug. They look at the changelogs for the problem package, seeing if it had a similiar bug. Also, consider that this system is not online, and the admin has no network connection.
