Bug#685264: debbugs: obey “Control” field in pseudoheader of messages to ‘[email protected]’

Ben Finney <[email protected]> Sat, 15 Oct 2016 15:48:31 +1100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.debbugs
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On 18-Aug-2012, Don Armstrong wrote:

> Control: only works for [email protected] and [email protected] currently. Other
> things may be supported in the future, but most of those other
> messages have side effects.

Could you expand on that? I don't know what would be the down-side of
having debbugs recognise the pseudoheader in a message such as
<URL:https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761980#24>.

The message was sent to <[email protected]> with an
explanation of why it is being closed, and also a pseudoheader with
some instructions to the BTS.

What would be wrong with having the BTS recognise that pseudoheader
and obey it?

That one did not take effect, until I also sent it to the bug report
<[email protected]>. Neither that nor <[email protected]>
seem appropriate for a message which is not intended to have anything
but an administrative effect, so <[email protected]> seems
the correct place to send that message.

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Ben Finney <[email protected]>

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