> dinstall, the software which installs packages into the hierarchy, can
> now announce packages and close bugs for you.
Ah, you beat me to it! I was planning to work on this one next week ;-)
Well done!!
> dinstall will announce to debian-changes and/or debian-devel-changes
> as appropriate. It will compare the name part of the Maintainer in
> the .dsc and the .changes. If they match, it will close the bugs, and
> if not, it will assume it's an NMU and set their severity to fixed.
> Bugs are only processed for source uploads.
There was a suggestion a while back for the .changes file to have two
fields, a Maintainer field and an Uploader field. If these are
identical, then it's a maintainer upload, otherwise it's an NMU. If
there's no Uploader field, then fall back to your heuristic.
Do you want any help implementing this? I have a lot of stuff on
paper at home, from when I read through the dpkg-dev and dinstall
stuff with a toothcomb.
Julian
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