peter green writes: >> If you do reintroduce it, please note the extra steps (reopening bugs >> in particular) > On that note one thing that doesn't seem to be easy/well documented is > how to go about finding the bugs that affected a package at the time > of it's removal. If I go to the bugs page for the package and select > "archived and unarchived" I see a bunch of resolved bugs but other > than opening them up individually I don't see a good way to tell the > difference between ones that were actually fixed and ones that were > open at the time of the removal.
dak logs which bug reports is closed when a source package was removed: see the "Also-Bugs" field in https://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.822 (for the current year; removals-YYYY.822 or removals-full.822 are also available). Note that sometimes[1] the bugs are not closed by dak and end up getting closed in a different way. Ansgar [1] IIRC when removing >1 source package at the same time