Subscribing to an individual bug on debbugs

Question

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.

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, Aug 14 '19 at 06:54
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, Aug 14 '19 at 14:29

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 13 '19 at 20:38

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.

Subscribing to an individual bug on debbugs

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