Re: Bug closing questions. Was: Re: slink bugs

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl> writes:
>BTW, I don't understand at all why maintainers don't take the effort to
>regularly check the list of bugs against their packages, and close those
>that have been solved. Some of the bug reports I closed last week had been
>fixed back at the beginning of this year!

I just added this to my crontab, to automate the check:

#                 ask for weekly report of bugs in my packages
0 17 * * fri echo "index maint jrv" | mail request@bugs.debian.org

			       - Jim Van Zandt