Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] How to close migrated issues without a merge?

From: chuck c <bubbasnmp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:25:23 -0500
Example closed with a merge:
 Opened 1 year ago by Wireshark GitLab MigrationGuest
AndersBroman @AndersBroman closed via merge request !718 (merged) 15 hours ago

No code to merge. Doing housekeeping.
Opened 9 months ago by Wireshark GitLab MigrationGuest

Added a comment showing the fix but can't close the issue.
Is there a way to assign issues back to the person that opened it on bugziila?