Martin Schulze wrote: > Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> Under the current setup, I suppose I could just reply saying I fixed the >> bug and not bother with the Debian control messages, but then it leaves a >> detective job for the downstream maintainer trying to work out whether to >> tag a bug as fixed-upstream or not. > > If it saves you time, just do it.
Okay -- I may do that then. > Usually, you respond with the > version of the upstream package you are applying the patch to. That > information together with your wonderful verbose Changes file is > sufficient for me to determine whether a bug can be closed and the > like. Okay -- good. > The bug reports would last longer in the state open instead of > fixed-upstream, but for the Debian environment that doesn't matter > since the bug is still open inside Debian anyway. However, man-pages > are updated quite often, and I'm at least trying not to let too much > time pass until I update the Debian package. Also good. Best regards. Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/ read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
