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Re: Bug Reporting system



> On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Clint Adams wrote:
> 
> > Many users have difficulty determining which package is responsible for
> > a problem.  How are they going to determine if a bug is architecture-specific?
> 
> That's a good argument for adding the `Architecture:' field to
> bug reports.  Users may not be able to determine that the bug
> is architecture-specific, but they can report that the bug was
> observed on a sparc (or whatever).

Why not just use /usr/bin/bug? That script is really good:

[from a random bugreport, produced by /usr/bin/bug]:

> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 1.3
> Kernel Version: Linux dax 2.0.30 #1 Wed May 28 08:57:52 CDT 1997 i586 unknown
 
So, you're asking for the addition of something we essentially already
have.


-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/


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