From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jul 15 09:10:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA07235 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA07222; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707151610.JAA07222@hub.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: Tim Vanderhoek Subject: Re: misc/4028 : GNATS auto-magically re-opened14prs Reply-To: Tim Vanderhoek Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR misc/4028; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Bill Fenner Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/4028 : GNATS auto-magically re-opened14prs Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 12:07:07 -0400 (EDT) On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Bill Fenner wrote: > If the original PR's were listed as confidential, nothing related to > them would have been sent to the freebsd-bugs list. If they were > later (silently) changed to be non-confidential, as is the tradition, > they would suddenly show up as you saw. I considered this, but decided it was impossible since I know for certain (ie. [100 + 10]% certain) that at least some of the affected were never at any point in time marked confidential. (Unless they were silently marked confidential later. Very very unlikely). Besides. Even if they got changed from confidential to non-confidential, that still doesn't explain them re-opening (even if it explains why they can't be found on the bugs archive). I don't know how gnats stores bugreports, but if it stores all changes to a pr as deltas to the original, and the deltas somehow got destroyed or disattached (from the original pr, leaving them floating around?), that would explain them re-opening. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk