bugs status and NMUs/experimental

git-svn-id: svn://anonscm.debian.org/ddp/manuals/trunk/developers-reference@2655 313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d

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--- a/developers-reference.sgml
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   <!ENTITY % commondata  SYSTEM "common.ent" > %commondata;
 
   <!-- CVS revision of this document -->
-  <!ENTITY cvs-rev "$Revision: 1.250 $">
+  <!ENTITY cvs-rev "$Revision: 1.251 $">
 
   <!-- if you are translating this document, please notate the CVS
        revision of the original developer's reference in cvs-en-rev -->
@@ -2100,6 +2100,17 @@ 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 <ref id="nmu" name="Non-maintainer upload (NMU)">
+(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.)
+       <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
 wrongly closed bugs, send an <tt>reopen <var>XXX</var></tt> command to