Am 03.05.2007 17:27 schrieb Pierre HABOUZIT:
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:48:10PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
>> Am 03.05.2007 15:09 schrieb Julien Cristau:

>> 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? I've reported many bugs so far and seldom found that the stuff
>> which was added automatically provided any useful information regarding
>> this bug. In contrast, I was pretty annoyed by some packages abusing
>> this feature. I don't know which package it was (I think it was XServer)
>> but I had to read a few pages of presubj and my bugreport was full of
>> useless config crap.
> 
>   Your arguments are utter crap. The few packages that use
> /usr/share/bug/$package/* are packages that are already hard enough to
> package, not to make their maintenance worse. So FWIW I disagree with
> you, I'd even say that this bug is important and not normal. It's not
> because *YOU* don't see what it's worth to have those informations, that
> you should decide unilaterally not to support the current de facto
> standard.
>
>   I even think this is described in the policy or in the dev ref.
>
>   And fwiw don't make me cry, supporting this is *JUST* doing:
> 
>   commands.getoutput("/usr/share/doc/%(package)s/script &3>1")
> 
>   IMNSHO any claimed reportbug replacement should support
> /usr/share/bug/$(package)/* extensions to be releasable.

As far as I know the user is free to use one of the provided tools from
Debian *or* send bugreports via mail as described here:

  http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.en.html

If you read it carefully you'll notice that rng already provides a lot
more information by default than we expect the average user to send when
reporting via mail. I agree that rng doesn't send as much as reportbug.


Cheers,

Bastian

PS: Pierre, please watch your language. There's no need to get abusive.
It's not exactly funny to process bugreports from someone who speaks to
me with such an aggressive attitude.


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Bastian Venthur                                      http://venthur.de
Debian Developer                                 venthur at debian org



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