On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:31:32PM -0500, Alfie Costa wrote: > On 5 Mar 2004, at 14:40, Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> sent: > > > ...give "reportbug" a try as your primary > > bug reporting tool for the Debian System. > > These form letters can be frustrating. #236220 was filed using "reportbug". > 'libxv1' had no bugs filed for it, so "reportbug" didn't mention anything. I'm not sure what to tell you. Having reportbug report all bugs against the source package might be better, but then users would get blitzed with hundreds of bugs in the case of XFree86. Many would be overwhelmed ignore what they see, and just go ahead and file a duplicate. It was not appropriate to file the bug against any particularly library package, as the buggy code was common to all of the maintainer scripts for *all* of the packages. The xfree86 source package really was the best place for it. Hmm. Maybe reportbug should show all bugs filed specifically against the source package's name plus the package being complained about? > Now I notice from the log of "#235687 xfree86: [shell-lib.sh] POSIXly-incorrect > syntax used in find_culprits()", that you've done SIXTEEN merges, (ouch!) which > probably explains the form letter. Yes. > Anyway, glad it's fixed and hope things are less hectic. 'reportbug' users > shouldn't get that particular form letter though. If I can summon the energy, I may draft an alternate version, but as you can see above, this was a tricky case. -- G. Branden Robinson | The greatest productive force is Debian GNU/Linux | human selfishness. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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