On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:39:36PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > On 2012-02-06 14:02, Mark Brown wrote:
> >It means that your mail contained a bunch of random numbers and didn't > >elucidate what you were thinking when you merged the bugs at all. > My mail contained 2 numbers, 565294 and 585110. > 565294 is the number of this issue report. > 585110 is the number of a duplicate issue report which you can see > on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585110 Yes, I had worked out that they were bug numbers. Thanks for that. > If you still do not understand any number, it would be preferable to > request an explanation than to write random comments. I tend to put about as much effort in as I'm seeing in the thing I'm responding to; what I saw was a drive by tweak of some bugs with no parsable explanation. Frankly I could barely tell if this was intentional, it looked like a script gone wrong. There was no analysis, no explanation and for bonus fun points not even a mention of what either of the bugs is (which is not enormously helpful when one doesn't have a web browser to hand). > > The > >bugs don't appear to be the same bug at all, the one bug is talking > >about adding an icon and the other bug is talking about the information > >that's present not being correct. > The first bug is not talking about adding an icon, it is reporting > that the icon is missing. Both reports are about the same problem, In what way? Simply asserting something doesn't make it true. The report makes no mention of icons whatsover. It does mention errors in the type field, and other errors in the existing content, but doesn't appear to have anything to say about having an icon. > the former describes the symptom, while the latter describes the > cause (or, perhaps more accurately, a different symptom which makes > the cause obvious). Again, this appears to bear little if any relation to the contents of the bug. > By the way, when manipulating issue reports, please explain your > modifications if they have no obvious justification, in particular > when changing the report type. If this is an issue which concerns you it might be worth taking your own advice on board. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
