On 2022-09-23 at 11:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 11:22:31AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> 'man bash' cites Brian Fox and Chet Ramey as the authors, and gives >> an E-mail address for each. (It's possible that they may be the >> active upstream maintainers, as well.) > > Chet Ramey is the current upstream bash maintainer. Brian Fox has > not been involved with bash development for decades. Nevertheless, > removing Brian's email address from the AUTHORS section is neither > necessary nor desirable. Everyone knows it's a historical section. > > In the case of the bash(1) page, it's actually followed by a BUG > REPORTS section, telling you how to submit bug reports to the > upstream maintainer. That's not common in man pages, but clearly not > unheard of either. > > As a Debian user, however, one is expected to know how to file bug > reports correctly. It is NOT done by trudging through the man page > looking for the first email address one can find. It's done by using > the reportbug tool, or by following the instructions on the > <https://bugs.debian.org/> web site.
To be fair, some types of bug you're recommended to report upstream instead, and for those looking at an E-mail address identified in the man page as being related to upstream is not a terribly unreasonable idea (albeit, as shown here, not always a fruitful one). -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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