Re: Bug Reporting

2015-06-09 Thread Charles Daffern
On 09/06/15 09:27, Pierre Gaston wrote: > Well it tries to execute the file and show the lines where it gets an > error, it's a useful behavior when you try to write a script. > > If you have read access to these files and can run bash, you can print > them anyway eg: > > bash -c 'echo "$( > so it

Re: Bug Reporting

2015-06-09 Thread Pierre Gaston
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Avinash Thapa wrote: > Hi, I'll report the bug via email only. > > In this, you are able to get the /etc/passwd file inside an error, this > thing looks weird to me so I thought to report you this thing. > > Just write in your terminal > bash -i '/etc/passwd'

Re: Bug Reporting

2015-06-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/08/2015 06:28 AM, Avinash Thapa wrote: > Hello > > I have to report a bug related to bash.So, this is good place to report the > bug ? Yes. Also good is using the 'bashbug' script, typically installed alongside 'bash', for reporting the bug with information that we often find helpful. --

Bug Reporting

2015-06-08 Thread Avinash Thapa
Hello I have to report a bug related to bash.So, this is good place to report the bug ? Kind & Best Regards, Avinash Thapa

Re: Why bash doesn't have bug reporting site?

2014-01-14 Thread Chet Ramey
> > * Ability to link with patches. In fact, github allows submitters to attach > > a patch, and admin can just merge it in with one click, provided there are > > no conflicts. > > The number of issues we get with patches already attached are few. The > number of patches that are applied verbatim,

Re: Why bash doesn't have bug reporting site?

2014-01-13 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-01-13 22:31:01 -0800, Yuri wrote: > e-mail has quite a few vulnerabilities. Spam, impersonation, etc. In the > system relying on e-mail, spam filter has to be present. And due to this you > will get false positives and false negatives, resulting in lost information. > On the opposite, login

Re: Why bash doesn't have bug reporting site?

2014-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 14 January 2014 01:31:01 Yuri wrote: > On 01/13/2014 12:32, Eric Blake wrote: > > A mailing list IS a bug reporting system. When something receives as > > low a volume of bug reports as bash, the mailing list archives are > > sufficient for tracking the status of

Re: Why bash doesn't have bug reporting site?

2014-01-13 Thread Yuri
On 01/13/2014 12:32, Eric Blake wrote: A mailing list IS a bug reporting system. When something receives as low a volume of bug reports as bash, the mailing list archives are sufficient for tracking the status of reported bugs. It's not worth the hassle of integrating into a larger syst

Re: Why bash doesn't have bug reporting site?

2014-01-13 Thread Chris Down
On 2014-01-13 12:26:43 -0800, Yuri wrote: > I noticed that bash is in absolute minority of projects not using any bug > reporting system. Instead, users are directed to this ML to report bugs. > It seems like it could have been very beneficial so that people could track > the status o

Re: Why bash doesn't have bug reporting site?

2014-01-13 Thread Peggy Russell
> I noticed that bash is in absolute minority of projects not using any > bug reporting system. Instead, users are directed to this ML to report bugs. Also see: man bashbug Maybe an RSS feed could help, like: http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs Peggy Russell

Re: Why bash doesn't have bug reporting site?

2014-01-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/13/2014 01:26 PM, Yuri wrote: > I noticed that bash is in absolute minority of projects not using any > bug reporting system. Instead, users are directed to this ML to report > bugs. > It seems like it could have been very beneficial so that people could > track the status of

Why bash doesn't have bug reporting site?

2014-01-13 Thread Yuri
I noticed that bash is in absolute minority of projects not using any bug reporting system. Instead, users are directed to this ML to report bugs. It seems like it could have been very beneficial so that people could track the status of the issues. Yuri

Re: the bug mailing lists are open bug reporting lists (Re: Multi-word matching in history expansion)

2007-10-02 Thread The Wanderer
ermittent pain to me that I am not, and am in fact unlikely ever to be, in a position to actually contribute anything useful to almost any of the projects in which I am interested - much less all of the ones I actually use. And now a few words about the GNU bug reporting mailing lists... The GNU b

Re: the bug mailing lists are open bug reporting lists (Re: Multi-word matching in history expansion)

2007-10-02 Thread Chet Ramey
Bob Proulx wrote: > I saw that you had set Reply-To: back to the mailing list and I do not > know why that reply message did not respect your reply-to header. > For what it is worth I think it should have done so. I changed it. I've been burned in the past (or at least received complaints) when

the bug mailing lists are open bug reporting lists (Re: Multi-word matching in history expansion)

2007-10-02 Thread Bob Proulx
more forward progress when we work together instead of fighting among ourselves. And now a few words about the GNU bug reporting mailing lists... The GNU bug mailing lists are open and there is no expectation that bug reporters are subscribed in order to post bug reports. This makes bug r