From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: bug threading [was Re: Unable to close a bug in the tracker] Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:54:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87iqb5o7ie.fsf@red-bean.com> <3k6375fb19.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263459620 7334 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2010 09:00:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 14 10:00:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NVLYq-00056W-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:00:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVLYr-00040V-LY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:00:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVLTO-0000Zy-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVLTJ-0000WO-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:54:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36466 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVLTI-0000WB-3z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:54:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:42172) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NVLTH-00072Z-PR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:54:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NVLTH-000743-80; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:54:27 -0500 X-Spook: CIDA Freeh rail gun Etacs Centro Qaddafi interception X-Ran: bL5iX4ThLU>TMU|Tr2hZc(_PQ3o2ub_U9ZcE%_=o8_jDXV?ir[Y~NBoZ70+c[zER*p/BOG X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <3k6375fb19.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:36:18 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119981 Archived-At: >> One of the problems for me is that it doesn't automatically thread >> bugs (if a reply to a bug is sent without a "in-reply-to" or >> "references" header, as is sadly common, Debbugs could add such a >> "references" header so all the messages are automatically threaded >> in the MUA). I changed it so that messages without in-reply-to or references headers get such headers pointing to the original bug report. I hope this is an improvement. For technical reasons, it's easier to do this than to point to the most recent message for any given bug number. In the absence of a real in-reply-to, there's no way to tell which is more likely to be correct anyway. Please file bugs against debbugs.gnu.org for things you want changing; this was the first time I had heard the above complaint.