help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Ersek, Laszlo
Dear Mentors, I've read some notes on how to use the Debian BTS via email [0] [1] [2], but I am still a bit confused. Rogério Brito has submitted a wishlist bug report for lbzip2 [3]. As Rogério has accepted my proposal to use an external tool for his need, I'd like to close the bug with a

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Hi! Let me address each point separately. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:22:03PM +0100, Ersek, Laszlo wrote: Rogério Brito has submitted a wishlist bug report for lbzip2 [3]. As Rogério has accepted my proposal to use an external tool for his need, I'd like to close the bug with a wontfix tag. My

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 08:34:49AM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: [snipped OP's exampl Won't work. :-) Check one of the several bugs which were just closed from the BTS. Randomly, I'll point you to this one: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547220#14 By won't work, what I meant

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:22:03PM +0100, Ersek, Laszlo wrote: need, I'd like to close the bug with a wontfix tag. My question to the mentors list is the following: (1) what addresses should I put in the To: field, and (2) how should I format the body of my message, so that (a) the bug gets

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Ersek, Laszlo
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: Ignoring for now the anomaly of closing a wontfix bug, which Kumar has already addressed, this is what I would send to achieve this result. I'll do this. Thank you both very much, lacos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Ben Finney
Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in writes: Closing with a wontfix tag is something which people do, but I personally don't prefer. wontfix, IMHO, should be reserved for something like a potential problem or misfeature, which you acknowledge, but don't want to fix, at least for now. I

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in writes: Closing with a wontfix tag is something which people do, but I personally don't prefer. wontfix, IMHO, should be reserved for something like a potential problem or misfeature, which you acknowledge,

Indicating the resolution of a closed bug report (was: help with BTS mail interface)

2010-01-29 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in writes: Closing with a wontfix tag is something which people do, but I personally don't prefer. […] What, then, should be the tag applied for “not a bug” or

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:22:03PM +0100, Ersek, Laszlo a écrit : v To: 567196-d...@bugs.debian.org, Rogério Brito Cc: 563...@bugs.debian.org Subject: alternative accepted by submitter Package: lbzip2 Version: 0.20-1 Tags: wontfix thanks Dear Laszlo, in the above example, you