Re: Basic questions about the triage process

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:19:27 -0500
> From: Noam Postavsky <address@hidden>
> Cc: Andrew Hyatt <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > One needs to read the error message and resubmit the control message
> > modified as appropriate.  E.g., one example I tend to bump into is
> > when I merge a bug with another one, and debbugs refuses because their
> > state is different -- in that case one needs to change the state of
> > one of the two bugs and then resubmit the merge directive.
> 
> Is there some reason not to use forcemerge?

It still requires a new control message, so what I said is still
valid.  And as long as you do have to send a new control message, why
not do it right?

Also, note this caveat:

>     Note: you cannot merge with an archived bug - you must unarchive it first.

IOW, even forcemerge won't always work.