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Adding 'summary' and 'outlook' fields from upstream debbugs?

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 26380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: bug#26380: Getting a copy of the GNU Debbugs
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 08:03:09 -0400

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:

> Are there plans to install changes from your repo back to
> debbugs.gnu.org?

Yeah, that would be step 5:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26380#8

Still working through step 3 for now though...

> There are some bugs (*) I could work on; using your repo
> would be much safer than changing directly on debbugs.gnu.org, as I did
> in the past.

Ah, I tagged Glenn as the author of all the reconstructed commits, does
that mean some of them should be yours?

> Furthermore, do we intend to offer Debian to take over changes we have
> applied? I've tried that in the past, but the Debian people didn't
> react. Years ago, but we could retry.

Well, first we'd have to see if our changes would make sense.  I've seen
a couple of cases so far during the merge where it looks like the same
bug was fixed on the Debian side.

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