Handling of "partial fixes" and bug numbers

[Andrew Bennetts]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
[...]
> What I ended up doing was just marking that there was a related branch
> (which will soon be marked as [merged]), and in the NEWS entry I did:
> 
> > +* Reduced memory consumption during ``bzr commit`` of large files. For
> > +  pre 2a formats, should be down to ~3x the size of a file, and for
> > +  ``--2a`` formats should be down to exactly 2x the size. Related to bug
> > +  #109114. (John Arbash Meinel)
> > +
> 
> 
> (So I used "Related to" rather than (..., #109114).)

This seems fine to me, especially if you add a corresponding comment to the bug
report saying it has been partially addressed.  Anyone looking at either the
NEWS file or the bug report will know what they want to know.

We don't really use bug reports for any sort of strict reporting, we just use
them to keep a record of important work we need to do (and to let users
experiencing bugs know what issues we already know about).  I don't see any
practical benefit to making extra bug reports etc in this case, so I'd say don't
spend any effort making them.

-Andrew.