On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:17:57PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > yes. And what is when someone is offline and wants to see what > that bug was about?
It also helps if the maintainer accidently closes the wrong bug in the Changelog. * New upstream version (closes: #1111). means nothing if say bug #1111 is for a completely different package, People are left wondering "How did this new upstream package fix the bug in this other package? Was it accidental? Was it deliberate?" However: * New upstream version, fixes bad error message (closes: #1111). Serves two purposes: #1. Makes it clear that bug #1111 was the wrong bug. #2. Gives the chance of somebody else being able to look up what bug the maintainer really intended to close. Especially, if say, there was a bug #11111 against the same package with a title "bad error message produced when XXXX". In this case it becomes pretty obvious that the maintainer probably forgot to enter an extra digit. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>