Bug#807810: Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one place

Nicholas Bamber nicholas at periapt.co.uk
Thu Dec 17 17:56:54 UTC 2015


James,
	I agree that I can see no need to support multiple forwarding 
addresses. However it turns out we currently support that. As a test 
this bug has been forwarded to two locations.

	Currently this bug is asking for that to be documented.

	

On 17/12/15 14:17, James McCoy wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2015 6:06 AM, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni at jidanni.org
> <mailto:jidanni at jidanni.org>> wrote:
>  >        forwarded bug address
>  >            Mark the bug as forwarded to the given address (usually an
> email
>  >            address or a URL for an upstream bug tracker).
>  >
>  > Mention what if one wants to mark the bug forwarded to more than one
> place.
>
> Why should there be more than one place?
>
> If it's a single issue, then there should be a single place to
> reference. If there are multiple issues, then the bug should be cloned
> and each clone can have their own forwarded reference.
>
> Yes, the forwarded string can contain arbitrary text, so you can have
> multiple URLs in it, but when is that actually useful?
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
>
>
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