Bug#403390: Fwd: Bug#403390 acknowledged by developer (closing 403390)

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

Am 06.10.2008 um 11:45 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann:

> Hello Luk,
> ----- Forwarded message from Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org> -----
>
>> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
>> #403390: release-notes: Keyboard for X on ppc now fully functional,
>> which was filed against the release-notes package.
>> 
>> It has been marked as closed by one of the developers, namely
>> Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>.
>> 
>> You should be hearing from them with a substantive response shortly,
>> in case you haven't already. If not, please contact them directly.
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> I haven't yet received your explanation. Could you please resend?

I have received a similar mail (for #417879), and the archive of the
debian-doc mailing list shows that Luk closed about two dozen other bugs
in that impressively informative way recently.

It seems the rationale is this: the bugs were for the etch release
notes, so they become (more or less) automatically irrelevant for lenny.
That's why Martin Zobel-Helas tagged them "pending" in August 2007 and
Luk closed them now.

Luk, is that explanation correct?

Cheers,
Sven      who will likely not bother filing bugs against the
          release-notes pseudopackage anymore.