On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
> > If the bug is merged, unmerge it, and use one of the existing bugs.
>
> Maybe the message can make that more clear. For example, what did you
> think of this suggestion?
>
> -Bug is marked as being merged with others. Use an existing clone.
> +Bug is marked as being merged with others. Please unmerge and reassign
> +or unmerge, clone, and merge again.
I'd prefer not to add more verbiage there, and stick it in the
documentation instead. [And it certainly shouldn't say to reassign;
the critical aspect here is just that you just unmerge and use it...
thus, use an existing clone.]
> > -1 isn't a valid bug number, so the message is correct;
>
> Yes, it is correct, but “did not pass regex check” is really not
> helpful.
>
> How about “-1 isn't a valid bug number”?
Because the test is done using a regex, and any failure in the options
passed to that control implementation would then fail with that
message, which would be incorrect.
> > On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
> >> | Debbugs::Control::set_title('transcript', 'IO::Scalar=GLOB(0x31d4ce8)',
> >> 'requester', 'Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>', 'request_addr',
> >> 'cont...@bugs.debian.org', 'request_msgid',
> >> '<20100413224129.ga1...@progeny.tock>', 'request_subject', ...) called at
> >> /usr/lib/debbugs/service line 879
> >> | eval {...} called at /usr/lib/debbugs/service line 878
> >>
> >> Probably the debugging output should be suppressed, too.
> >
> > The debugging output is there so that I know what is going on when
> > people report things, so no, it won't be suppressed.
>
> Of course, I only meant suppressing the debug output in this well
> understood case. It was only a wishlist bug, though, so if you like
> the debugging output, that is fine.
>
> BTW, I would be glad to prepare a patch if directed to the right
> source tree to start from.
http://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/debbugs and mainline.
Don Armstrong
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I think they misspelled this. Shouldn't it be "Operation Just 'Cause"?
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