Re: Debbugs pseudo-headers in comments

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Carlos Pita <address@hidden> writes:

[…]

 > Just another related question: when I send a bug report I get an
 > acknowledgement with a subject with the following format:

 > bug#NNNN: Acknowledgement (<bug description>)

 > The Reply-To header of this response is correctly set to the bug
 > address, but AFAICS in the mailing list most follow-ups don't include
 > the "Acknowledgement()" part in the subject header (although some of
 > them, including some of mine -shame on me-, do include it).  So most
 > of the time they're not just mindless replies to the acknowledgement.
 > Some of them could be replies to follow-ups, fine.  But sometimes the
 > bug reporter becomes its own commenter.  So what do you do in these
 > cases:

 > 1) Reply to the acknowledgement without modifying the subject.

 > 2) Reply to the acknowledgement editing the subject to remove the
 > "Acknowledgement ()" part.

 > 3) Write a mail from scratch copy-pasting the bug description to the
 > subject.

 > 4) Another more sophisticated option I'm not aware of.

        The problem with 1‒3 is that these tear the respective
        discussion thread.  To avoid that, – try to get the initial
        message – /as modified by Debbugs,/ – and reply to that.

        I know of several means to do that:

        • subscribe to the bug-gnu-emacs@ mailing list; you will get all
          the Debbugs mail (sans pure-control@ messages), /including/
          your own bug reports;

        • go to http://debbugs.gnu.org/⟨bug-number⟩ and fetch the
          initial message (or all the messages associated with that
          report) in Unix mbox format; per my experience, mail user
          agents typically allow browsing mbox files as mail folders,
          /and/ replying to messages stored within them;

        • subscribe to nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs (the NNTP
          mirror of the bug-gnu-emacs@ mailing list) and find the
          message of interest there; you’ll probably still want to reply
          via email (/not/ NNTP); for Gnus, M-x gnus-summary-wide-reply
          will do just that.

        Alternatively, since Debbugs uses Resent-Message-Id:, it’s
        possible to just reply to the original message itself (assuming
        you save a copy of outgoing mail) – /but be sure/ to fix the To:
        header to point to the correct ⟨bug-number⟩@ email.

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