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)

[Chris Lawrence <quango@watervalley.net>]

On Jan 19, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Not everyone has a good web connection. Do you prefer no bug report at all
> because someone has not the money or time to dial in, start a browser and
> check the web page before submitting a report?

<Plug>reportbug will do this automatically (at least the "check the
list of reports on the web page" parts.  (You can disable this feature
if you want, though.)</Plug>

> I think bug reports should never be discouraged for any reason.

Agreed.  Although, I will say that it can get messy dealing with
multiple reports with different severities.


Chris
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