Bug#842786: Fwd: Bug#842786: marked as pending

[Jeremy Bicha]

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From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com>
Date: 10 January 2017 at 04:20
Subject: Re: Bug#842786: marked as pending
To: Santiago Vila <sanvila at unex.es>

On 10 January 2017 at 03:53, Santiago Vila <sanvila at unex.es> wrote:
> Hi. Could you please write better changelog entries?
>
> Whoever reads that will think that the bug was about a new upstream
> being uploaded, but that's definitely not the case.
>
> A better changelog would be for example like this:
>
>   * New upstream release.
>   * Should fix FTBFS when using overlayfs (Closes: #842786)

Actually, it doesn't fix anything because it's not clear that there's
anything broken. If the package weren't buildable, it should have
shown up as unbuildable in the Reproducible Builds project. The
changelog entry isn't completely useless as rebuilding the package (or
uploading an updated package) proves that the package is buildable.

Would it be more appropriate for me to just close this bug as invalid
instead of doing it via changelog?

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha