From: aba <aba@313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:19:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: NMUs and version-tracking
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NMUs and version-tracking


git-svn-id: svn://anonscm.debian.org/ddp/manuals/trunk/developers-reference@3943 313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 43ce201..0e79961 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
     the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
   * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
     Closes: #382721
+  * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
+    Closes: #339552
 
  -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>  Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700
 
diff --git a/developers-reference.sgml b/developers-reference.sgml
index 95b1fbf..6b978e3 100644
--- a/developers-reference.sgml
+++ b/developers-reference.sgml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <!ENTITY % dynamicdata  SYSTEM "dynamic.ent" > %dynamicdata;
 
   <!-- CVS revision of this document -->
-  <!ENTITY cvs-rev "$Revision: 1.296 $">
+  <!ENTITY cvs-rev "$Revision: 1.297 $">
 
   <!-- if you are translating this document, please notate the CVS
        revision of the original developer's reference in cvs-en-rev -->
@@ -2181,16 +2181,11 @@ We prefer the <tt>closes: #<var>XXX</var></tt> syntax, as it is the
 most concise entry and the easiest to integrate with the text of the
 <file>changelog</file>.
 	<p>
-If an upload is identified as <qref id="nmu">Non-maintainer upload (NMU)</qref>
-(and that is the case if the name of the person who commits this change
-is not exactly the same as any one of Maintainer or Uploader,
-except if the maintainer is the qa group),
-than the bug is only tagged <tt>fixed</tt> instead of being closed.
-If a maintainer upload is targetted to experimental,
-than the tag <tt>fixed-in-experimental</tt> is added to the bug;
-for NMUs, the tag <tt>fixed</tt> is used.
-(The special rule for experimental is expected to change
-as soon as version-tracking is added to the bug tracking system.)
+Historically, uploads identified as
+<qref id="nmu">Non-maintainer upload (NMU)</qref>
+were tagged <tt>fixed</tt> instead of being closed,
+but that practice was ceased with the advent of version-tracking.
+The same applied to the tag <tt>fixed-in-experimental</tt>.
 	<p>
 If you happen to mistype a bug number or forget a bug in the changelog
 entries, don't hesitate to undo any damage the error caused. To reopen
@@ -2198,7 +2193,9 @@ wrongly closed bugs, send an <tt>reopen <var>XXX</var></tt> command to
 the bug tracking system's control address, &email-bts-control;.  To
 close any remaining bugs that were fixed by your upload, email the
 <file>.changes</file> file to <email>XXX-done@&bugs-host;</email>,
-where <var>XXX</var> is your bug number.
+where <var>XXX</var> is your bug number, and write "Version: XXX"
+in the first line of the body of the email to mark the first version
+where this bug has been closed.
 	<p>
 Bear in mind that it is not obligatory to close bugs using the
 changelog as described above.  If you simply want to close bugs that