On Thu, 09 Jul 2009, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 08.07.2009, 23:47 -0700 schrieb Don Armstrong: > > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > often, I need to know the bug number immediatelly after submitting, > > > where waiting for it is annoying. > > > For example: > > > * I filed a wishlist bug for which I am preparing a patch. I need to > > > know the bug number for the Closes: tag in the changelog. > > > > In general, you wouldn't need to know the number for this (unless you > > were preparing a NMU diff or something). > > In this case, I wanted to prepare a patch (actually a git-branch) > that included even the changelog entry, to reduce the work for the > maintainer even more. But you are right, in general it’s not needed.
Yeah. > > > * I filed a bug due to a running discussion, and I would like to reply > > > „Good point, I filed a bug, please see http://bugs.debian.org/nnnn > > > > This you can approximate by using X-Debbugs-Cc:, which will > > include this information in your response. > > Hmm, but the approximation is not create, because it would break > threading. That's actually something that we can probably change. Keeping the References: and In-Reply-To: intact would do this. > > [Almost all of the other reasons to know the bug number are part of > > #49228, which I'm getting closer and closer to actually fixing.] > > Sorry, offline at the time of writing, I’ll have a look at it later. It's the "do most control things at submit time." > Maybe "wontfix, help" would be a good combination for „I won’t do > it, but I don’t oppose it“ – something that I’d like to see much > more often explicitly stated. Done. Don Armstrong -- Tell me something interesting about yourself. Lie if you have to. -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php 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
