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Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on wiki.debian.org

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on wiki.debian.org
Date	2019-05-18 20:50 +0200
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On Sat 18 May 2019 at 20:22:54 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> On Du, 30 dec 18, 17:30:24, Andrea Borgia wrote:
> > Il 30/12/18 17:09, Brian ha scritto:
> > 
> > 
> > > I am unfamiliar with the bts (?) method so cannot offer advice.
> > 
> > I suspect the isse was the empty subject line but that error message was
> > a hell of a convoluted way to say so :)
> 
> Just for the archives, the 'close' command was deprecated, IIUC because 
> it was too easy to close a bug without providing any reason.

I cannot find anything referring to this deprecation. Indeed, we see

  > nnn-close is provided as an alias for nnn-done

at 

  https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer

That has been said since 1997.

I agree that providing a reason should be the norm. However, I have
just closed one of my bugs with nnn-close@ without giving a reason.
Not that I am proud of it!

-- 
Brian.

Thread

Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on  wiki.debian.org Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-30 15:50 +0100
  Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on  wiki.debian.org Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2018-12-30 16:10 +0100
    Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on  wiki.debian.org Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-12-30 16:30 +0100
      Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on  wiki.debian.org Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2018-12-30 17:00 +0100
        Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on  wiki.debian.org Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-12-30 17:20 +0100
          Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on  wiki.debian.org Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2018-12-30 17:40 +0100
            Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on  wiki.debian.org Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-05-18 19:30 +0200
              Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on  wiki.debian.org Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-05-18 20:50 +0200
                Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on  wiki.debian.org Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-05-18 23:00 +0200

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