On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:17:24AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Please make a policy on if duplicate bug reports should be closed or merged. [...] > Clearly merging is correct and closing is incorrect. Please don't overgeneralize. I've been known to close *and* merge the same bug[1], because I didn't catch the duplicate until after I'd fixed the original. [1] Typically by mailing control and -submitter with the same message. I find this to be one of the few legitimate uses of the control bot's "close" command. -- G. Branden Robinson | Men use thought only to justify Debian GNU/Linux | their wrong doings, and speech only branden@debian.org | to conceal their thoughts. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Voltaire
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