On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 02:27:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Should we just disable the general pseudo-package? Is it serving a > sufficient useful purpose to warrant the constant (if somewhat slow) > stream of misdirected bug reports?
no, I think "general" is still useful, there are some valid bugs in it.
"base" OTOH and as previously discussed, can go.
> I feel like every bug report that's come into general would have been
> better as an email message to debian-user (assuming the reporter wasn't
> able to do a more detailed diagnosis and figure out which package was
> actually the cuase).
yeah, thats probably also true, but that doesnt change the fact that its
good to have some place for general bugs in Debian.
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cheers,
Holger
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