On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 09:39:55PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:49:52PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:31:14PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > > > > * Acknowledge NMU (closes: #174301, #172803, #179036, #177616) > > > > Ugh, also this one. Do not use changelog for closing fixed bugs. > > Do it using BTS directly. > > Come on. This is getting a bit over the top, IMHO. > > After all, he *did* merge those changes from the NMU into his local > tree. Or even if he just pulled the lastest debian source, it would > still be a change. I think it's entirely reasonable to do this. > > What is the current consensus on this? >
That's a general consensus about not using changelog as a BTS management tool. That's an improper use, see some old flames about similar cases. And it generally causes confusion in bug submitters' mind: how many of them knows the difference between a fixed and a closed bug? A brief note about NMU changes incorporation in changelog and closing those bugs in BTS by hand is more correct IMO. -- Francesco P. Lovergine