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Is it possible to subscribe to an individual bug on https://debbugs.gnu.org/?

By subscribe, I mean that ideally one would receive all the e-mails sent to that bug report, but something like an RSS or Atom feed would also be useful.

I'm aware that one can subscribe to bug-gnu-emacs, and filter client-side (e.g. for something like "to [email protected]" or "cc [email protected]"), but that doesn't seem ideal.

Googling, I've found this bug report:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5439

which suggests that per-bug subscribing is not possible, but perhaps something might have changed since 2010.

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    Bug #5439 is still in "wishlist" status. It is still open.
    – Drew
    Commented Aug 13, 2019 at 22:32
  • True. However, it's possible that the issue had been "fixed", but the bug report itself simply forgotten about — considering the number of all the bugs on debbugs it didn't seem that implausible. (OTOH, looking now, there are only a couple of open bugs against debbugs.gnu.org itself, so it is indeed unlikely.)
    – aplaice
    Commented Aug 14, 2019 at 6:54
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    Yes, you're right that it often happens that a bug report is ignored/forgotten and the bug gets fixed at some point anyway.
    – Drew
    Commented Aug 14, 2019 at 14:29

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Every bug has a webpage, so if there is no other way then you can use a change notification service which sends you a mail when the page changes.

Or if you know elisp then you could even write a simple emacs script which runs a timer in the background fetching the page reglularly and notifies you if the content changes.

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