----- Forwarded message from Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: BTS version tracking To: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>> I'm really dumb today, I managed to send that to a wrong address. >>> Additionally, I also managed to re-close the wrong bug (see below). >>> I should just stop debian work for today.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 12:06:29PM +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (...) > The 'reopen' command takes an optional submitter argument, so it was > difficult to get a version in here unambiguously. Instead, we've > introduced a new 'found' command, which says "I've found the bug in this > version of the package". You can use this whether the bug is open or > closed; if the bug's closed and you give a version more recent than the > last recorded fixed version, the bug will be considered open again. > > found 1234567 1.3-2 > > 'found' is now preferred to 'reopen' except when reopening bugs that > were closed without a version (e.g. closed as invalid). > > When you mail nnnnnn-done without Version:, i.e. the old way of closing > bugs, the bug tracking system does approximately what it always did and > records the bug as closed for all versions of the package containing it. > Obviously, this loses the benefits of version tracking, and is now > intended only for pseudopackages and for closing bugs that were never > bugs to start with. It's still OK to use 'reopen' in the traditional way > to reopen such bugs in a versionless way, although the 'found' control > command without a version number works too. I was wondering, what is the correct way to handle when you're stupid and close the wrong bug in changelogs ? (like i did with #321876, when i intended to close #321976) Mike PS: The recent changes to the BTS (version tracking, block functionality...) really rock. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]