Bug#1036035: bug 1036035

[Simon McVittie]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 19:18:23 -0800, lev at levlaz.org wrote:
> Hey Tim, 
> 
> On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 14:55:01 -0500 Tim McConnell
> <tmcconnell168 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > THis can be closed Boxes works now 
> 
> Please reply to this bug report with "closing #1036035" in the subject
> line. This will automatically close this bug out. 

This is not the documented way to close bugs in the Debian bug tracking
system (for that, please see <https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer>).

Changing the subject line so that it doesn't mention the relevant package
or a short summary of a bug is generally harmful: package maintainers will
often see messages to bugs completely out-of-context, in an inbox containing
thousands of other messages, particularly if they are members of large
teams like GNOME. If I see a message with a subject line like

    Re: Bug#1036035: gnome-boxes: can't launch since upgrading Kernel to 6.1.0-9

then I know whether this message is relevant to my current work and I have
an idea of how serious or minor it is, but if I see a message with a subject
like

    Re: Bug#1036035: bug 1036035

then I have no idea what's going on until I go and look it up (which I
won't always have the time available to do).

So please keep informative subject lines - they're there for a reason -
and don't overwrite them with information intended for machines, especially
if the format isn't one that those machines will actually read.

Thanks,
    smcv