Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:10:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: misc/4028 : GNATS auto-magically re-opened14prs Message-ID: <199707151610.JAA07222@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/4028; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> 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
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