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Introduction to the bug control and manipulation mailserver
In addition to the mailserver on request@bugs.debian.org which allows
the retrieval of bug data and documentation by email, there is another
server on control@bugs.debian.org which also allows bug reports to be
manipulated in various ways.
The control server works just like the request server, except that it
has some additional commands; in fact, it's the same program. The two
addresses are only separated to avoid users making mistakes and
causing problems while merely trying to request information.
Please see the introduction to the request server available on the
World Wide Web, in the file bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt, or by sending
help to either mailserver, for details of the basics of operating the
mailservers and the common commands available when mailing either
address.
The reference card for the mailservers is available via the WWW, in
bug-mailserver-refcard.txt or by email using the refcard command).
Commands available only at the control mailserver
close bugnumber
Close bug report #bugnumber.
A notification is sent to the user who reported the bug, but
(in contrast to mailing bugnumber-done@bugs) the text of the
mail which caused the bug to be closed is _not_ included in
that notification. The maintainer who closes a report should
ensure, probably by sending a separate message, that the user
who reported the bug knows why it is being closed.
reassign bugnumber package
Records that bug #bugnumber is a bug in package. This can be
used to set the package if the user forgot the pseudo-header,
or to change an earlier assignment. No notifications are sent
to anyone (other than the usual information in the processing
transcript).
reopen bugnumber [originator-address|=]
Reopens #bugnumber if it is closed.
By default you are recorded as the originator of the report, so
that you will get the ack when it is closed again. This is to
avoid flooding potentially-naive users with many notifications
about the same report.
If you supply an originator-address the originator will be set
to the address you supply; you can use = to keep the originator
the same as it was before. It is usually a good idea to tell
the person who is about to be recorded as the originator that
you're reopening the report, so that they will know to expect
the ack which they'll get when it is closed again.
If the bug is not closed then reopen won't do anything, not
even change the originator. There is no way to change the
originator of an open bug report (this is deliberate, so that
you can't have a bug be closed and then deleted 28 days later
without someone being told about it).
forwarded bugnumber address
Notes that bugnumber has been forwarded to the upstream
maintainer at address. This does not actually forward the
report. This can be used to change an existing incorrect
forwarded-to address, or to record a new one for a bug that
wasn't previously noted as having been forwarded.
notforwarded bugnumber
Forgets any idea that bugnumber has been forwarded to any
upstream maintainer. If the bug was not recorded as having been
forwarded then this will do nothing.
retitle bugnumber new-title
Changes the title of a bug report to that specified (the
default is the Subject mail header from the original report.
Unlike most of the other bug-manipulation commands when used on
one of a set of merged reports this will change the title of
only the individual bug requested, and not all those with which
it is merged.
merge bugnumber bugnumber ...
Merges two or more bug reports. When reports are merged
opening, closing, marking or unmarking as forwarded and
reassigning any of the bugs to a new package will have an
identical effect on all of the merged reports.
Before bugs can be merged they must be in exactly the same
state: either all open or all closed, with the same
forwarded-to upstream author address or all not marked as
forwarded, and all assigned to the same package or package(s)
(an exact string comparison is done on the package to which the
bug is assigned). If they don't start out in the same state you
should use reassign, reopen and so forth to make sure that they
are before using merge.
If any of the bugs listed in a merge command is already merged
with another bug then all the reports merged with any of the
ones listed will all be merged together. Merger is like
equality: it is reflexive, transitive and symmetric.
Merging reports causes a note to appear on each report's logs;
on the WWW pages this is includes links to the other bugs.
Merged reports are all expired simultaneously, and only when
all of the reports each separately meet the criteria for
expiry.
unmerge bugnumber
Disconnects a bug report from any other reports with which it
may have been merged. If the report listed is merged with
several others then they are all left merged with each other;
only their associations with the bug explicitly named are
removed.
If many bug reports are merged and you wish to split them into
two separate groups of merged reports you must unmerge each
report in one of the new groups separately and then merge them
into the required new group.
You can only unmerge one report with each unmerge command; if
you want to disconnect more than one bug simply include several
unmerge commands in your message.
_________________________________________________________________
Ian Jackson / owner@bugs.debian.org. 20th July 1996.