Re: bug in the reportbug scripts?
Hi Frank!
On Don, 12 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> > -cat >&3 <<EOF
> > +cat <<EOF
>
> Ah, I thought that was only because I always use Emacs' built-in
> "debian-bug" command. Well, go ahead, but then also submit a bug
Ok.
> against reportbug, in order to clarify it's documentation.
> README.developers says:
No, because I found out by reading this file! In the first sentence just
before what you have quoted:
...and takes what comes out from the file descriptor 3 and puts it in the bug
template. ...
> ,----
> | The maintainer can then ask questions to the user or run whatever
> | information gathering script he likes, and echo all the content to fd 3.
> |
> | e.g.:
> | read -p 'color? '
> | echo "Color: $REPLY" >&3
> | ...
> | system-information-tool >&3
> |
> `----
This isn't wrong. It asks for a color and reads in the value, read echos
to stdout, but writes the Color to the bug template.
Commited to svn.
Best wishes
Norbert
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