Linking to an Issue in bullet-point does not add link to Issue in Pull-request

[einarwar]

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According to github docs, using one of the given keywords in the pull request description links an Issue to the pull-request, that can be seen in the "Development" tab on the sidebar.

This works when the text is on a separate line in markdown, e.g

Closes #<ISSUE_NUMBER>

However, if it is in a "bullet-point", e.g

* Closes #<ISSUE_NUMBER>

the issue does will not be linked, and merging the Pull Request will not automatically close the Issue.

The expected behaviour would be to support both of these examples. Also the docs does not explicitly specify that the line needs to start with the keyword.