On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Jakub Wilk wrote: > I tried to change owner of a few bugs to myself. This failed, with > an error message that makes little sense to me: > > >owner 666243 ! > Bug #666243 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: peg/0.1.9-1 [ITP] -- > recursive-descent parser generators for C > Ignoring request to unset the owner of bug #666243 which was not set > >owner 663916 ! > Bug #663916 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: phonetisaurus/0.4-1 [ITP] -- Grapheme > to Phoneme conversion tool > Ignoring request to unset the owner of bug #663916 which was not set
Thanks for the report! This was a bug in code that I recently introduced, which I've now fixed in my code, and will push out to the BTS shortly. > As a side note, I'm surprised that the reply was CCed to the package > maintainer, even though all commands failed: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/07/msg00213.html This is actually expected; if the BTS can figure out which bug the control command is for, it CC's appropriate people even if the command fails. [In this case, though, the special handling of ! was buggy, so it was equivalent to noowner.] Don Armstrong -- PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type of bureaucratic environment: one typified by interminable presentations with lots of fussy little bullet-points and flashy dissolves and soundtracks masked into the background, to try to convince the audience that the goon behind the computer has something significant to say. -- Charles Stross _The Jennifer Morgue_ p33 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
