On Thu, May 3, 2007 at 17:55:00 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Am 03.05.2007 17:17 schrieb Julien Cristau: > > If I'm requesting that information, it's not to annoy you, it's because > > without it bug reports are useless, and it's easy for any bug reporting > > tool to include it. If you find that a package adds useless information > > in its script, then file a bug against that package, but the bug > > reporting tool is not the place to make that call. > > I don't consider this as a wishlist bug. > > I do. You don't report a bug in rng but requesting a specific feature. > You're developing a remplacement for reportbug and in the process losing features which helped avoid busy work both for package maintainers and bug submitters. I think that's a pretty important problem for a bug reporting tool.
> >> You say that bugs with rng lack of important information and that many > >> of them are useless. Could you please backup this claim by a few > >> examples? > > > > Any bug reported against the xserver-xorg* packages. > > Any? Those are *all* xorg related bugs I've ever reported and in *none* > of them the output of the script was relevant: #326755 #322543. > > I picked three random bugs from xserver-xorg using rng: > > the first one in the list: #211765 - some license problem, output was > not relevant > > one from the middle: #354363 - no answer to the bugreport so far > > the last one: #369900 - looks like the output of the script was not > relevant at all > > I don't doubt that this feature *is* actually useful, I just don't > believe that it is relevant for *all* or even the majority of bugreports. > Please stop second guessing package maintainers. This stuff was added by the people who actually deal with the bugs, so I think their opinion might be relevant. > > I may implement this feature in the future (although it's pretty low on > my priority list), but if I do, it would be fully optional to include > this info or to read the presubj. > Make it optional if you want, but pretty please, with sugar on top, don't think this is unimportant because you, personally, don't use it in your packages. Thanks, Julien
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