bug#37854: 27.0.50; debbugs-gnu doesn't return date bugs were closed

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> All messages "bug marked as fixed in version 27.1, ...", as seen in that
> example at the bottom, are control messages. One could extend the
> "...bugreport.cgi?mboxstat=yes..." URL by another attribute
> "mboxcontrol=yes" to download only control messages. They can be
> identified by a "X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: control" header in the
> messages. But this would miss the requests embedded directly in
> messages, as seen in
> <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=37818#32>, for example.

Ah, I see.  Then building accurate statistics require downloading all
those (about 21K) URLs.  I mean, that's totally doable, but...  is that
something that the debbugs.gnu.org infrastructure team would frown upon?

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