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Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place

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On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:54:40AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> By the way one might be surprised that there could be two of these
> 
> $ w3m -dump http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718840 | grep Found
> Found in versions apt-show-versions/0.22.1, apt-show-versions/0.22.7
> 
> based on
> 
>        found bug [version]
>            Indicate that a bug was found to exist in a particular package
>            version.  Without version, the list of fixed versions is cleared
>            and the bug is reopened.

It's useful to denote that a bug is still present (or possibly
reintroduced) in a newer version of a package.  This is what allowing
aggregation of "found" versions provides.

> but only one of forwarded, based on
> 
>        forwarded bug address
>            Mark the bug as forwarded to the given address (usually an email
>            address or a URL for an upstream bug tracker).

The point of the forwarded command is either to simply indicate it has
been forwarded to someone, or to reference a URL where the discussion of
the issue upstream can be tracked.  If there isn't a canonical URL that
can be referenced, then the discussion may be to scattered to usefully
be tracked by that field.

That being said, it has already been shown the "address" part of the
command can be arbitrary text, so you can already do what was requested.

This still looks like a solution lacking a problem.  I asked before if
there was a specific case where knowledge of how to mark something as
forwarded to multiple URLs would have been useful, so I could better
understand your request, but got no response to that part of my email.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>

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Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> - 2015-12-13 12:10 +0100
  Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org> - 2015-12-17 15:30 +0100
    Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk> - 2015-12-17 19:10 +0100
      Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org> - 2015-12-17 20:40 +0100
        Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk> - 2015-12-17 22:30 +0100
  Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> - 2015-12-18 00:10 +0100
    Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk> - 2015-12-18 00:20 +0100
  Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> - 2015-12-18 00:50 +0100
  Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> - 2015-12-20 18:50 +0100
    Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org> - 2015-12-22 04:40 +0100
  Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> - 2015-12-22 05:10 +0100

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