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 21:17:33 UTC 2015


On 17/12/15 19:29, James McCoy wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2015 12:57 PM, "Nicholas Bamber" <nicholas at periapt.co.uk
> <mailto:nicholas at periapt.co.uk>> wrote:
>  >
>  > James,
>  >         I agree that I can see no need to support multiple forwarding
> addresses. However it turns out we currently support that.
>
> If by "support", you mean we don't do any verification of what the
> "forwarded" string is (and neither does the BTS), then yes we support it.
>
> I wouldn't claim that, though.  It's probably better to just use wording
> similar to how the BTS explains it.
>
>      address should generally be a URI, or possibly an email address.
> Using a URI where possible allows tools to query a remote bug tracking
> system (such as bugzilla) for a bug's status.
>
> Essentially, "address" can be arbitrary text, but common convention is
> for it to be an email address or link.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>


I suppose at some point in the future the bugs server might change its 
behaviour. So one could argue that everything is already documented with 
this line in the bts man page:

"For full details about the commands, see the BTS documentation. 
<https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control>"

I don't see any particular reason to single out the forwarded command 
for extra documentation.



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