On Wed, 14 May 2008, martin f krafft wrote: > Package: bugs.debian.org > Severity: normal > > It would be nice if I could also just surf to > http://bugs.debian.org/#XXXXXX to see the bug record. It's not > always possible to process away the #, and x copy-paste includes > it...
If your web browser actually escapes it, then it is ditched. Otherwise, debbugs shouldn't see the # bit at all, so there's nothing we can do about it. > Also, along the same lines, any reason why > http://bugs.debian.org/#XXXXXX. shouldn't work, with the final dot? > It would just be convenient... The primary reason is because at one point there were packages with numeric names; I suppose we could allow an optional period, though. Don Armstrong -- Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of entheogens; it now took very unusual circumstances to attract public attention to sightings of supernatural entities. The latest miracle had raised the ante on the supernatural: the Virgin Mary had manifested herself to two children, a dog, and a Public Telepresence Point. -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p228 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
