GNU bug report logs - #1567
Mailing an archived bug

Previous Next

Package: debbugs.gnu.org;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Don Armstrong <don <at> donarmstrong.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Mailing an archived bug
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:35:43 -0500

Package: emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com

By experiment, if I send mail to an archived bug, everything appears
to work as normal. I get an acknowledgement mail thanking me for my
information, and my mail is sent on to bug-gnu-emacs. However, the
information is not added to the relevant bug in the database. This
failure happens silently and without any notification.

I think it would be better if the mail were not sent to bug-gnu-emacs;
instead I should get a rejection mail, similar to the ones I get from
the control server:

Cannot find bug ### (is it archived?)
This bug report was last modified 15 years and 192 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.