Why is D unpopular, redux.

[Timon Gehr]

On 25.05.22 01:31, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/24/2022 3:45 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 24.05.22 18:20, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 5/24/2022 12:43 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>>> The original example no longer compiles, there are others in that 
>>>> thread. It has not been fixed!
>>>
>>> Other issues should get their own bugzilla issue.
>>
>> You are twisting my words. It's not another issue, it's another 
>> _example_. It's just that the pull request only fixed some special case.
>>
>> But sure, not really worth arguing. Whether or not the 15 year old 
>> bugzilla issue remains open or is replaced by a new duplicate report 
>> does not change much.
> 
> If the fix did not fix other cases, then they are separate bugs. They 
> certainly may be related, but if they require more code, they are separate.
> 

I don't buy that.

> Our whole use of github and bugzilla revolves around a 1:1 
> correspondence between bug fixes and PRs. A 1:many and many:1 is just 
> not manageable.
> 

The issue is: sometimes there are pull requests that _don't actually fix 
the issue they purport to fix_. Why should that cause a changelog entry 
that claims the bug was fixed?