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Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!



Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <luca@debian.org> a tapoté :

> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 05:15:48PM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
> > Example:
> > 1. detect bug
> > 2. run reportbug
> > 3. sees, other person was faster and reported bug 42.
> > 4. wait for new version
> > 5. read changlog
> > 6. what the heck was bug 42, was it mine ?
> 
> $ w3m http://bugs.debian.org/42
> I'm not so bothered by writing 32 characters to know what was it.
> Off-line? Wait until on-line..
> 
> Do you know how not to bother maintainers? Ask to the apt-listchanges
> developers to add a feature to download bugs report for each bug closed in
> changelog.

Or maybe the maintainers can just spend 14 seconds to add a comment
for each bug closed. Is that so complicated, so awful?
This way, users can all be satisfied and you do not requires all user
to spend 14 seconds each.


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