Hi, i now understand that the page is not about _submitting_ bugs but rather for operating the bug tracker. In that light, Brian's statement would indeed explain the meaning.
Brian wrote: > The subject of the mail has no importance and requ...@bugs.debian.org > will completely ignore it. So you can put anything in the subject line, > such as "Send for bugnumber" (or even leave it blank). > > IMO, the sentence could simply be rewritten to "The Subject of the > message is ignored." without loss of essential meaning. If this theory is correct, i'd prepend a half sentence to the original statement: "Other than with submitting a bug report, the Subject of the message is ignored, except for generating the Subject of the reply." I lookied up some control action in closed bugs. The message https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632865;msg=25 indeed has a subject which does not show up on the bug page: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632865 Have a nice day :) Thomas