Re: Rant about stupid bug reporters who can't be bothered to check for identical bugs before reporting their "new" one (Re: Bug#55602: gnu-standards: version 2.13-17 still has package overlap)

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>]

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> > <RANT>
> > *Always* check for duplicate bugs before submitting a new bug
> 
> The bug web pages are not absolutely up to date with the actual
> database. Your submitters may well have viewed the bug system on
> the web and not seen the report.

Yes, that is true for the first two or three reports.  Not for
10-day-old reports.