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)
- To: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Lazarus Long <lazarus@overdue.dhis.net>, 55602@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: 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)
- From: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:24:51 -0300
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20000121002451.D701@debian.org>
- Mail-followup-to: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Lazarus Long <lazarus@overdue.dhis.net>, 55602@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org
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> <RANT>
> *Always* check for duplicate bugs before submitting a new bug
> report. I am copying this email to debian-devel in hopes that it
> will stem the flood.
> </RANT>
This is wrong. We should encourage bugs from any user. Lots of reports. If
you impose some strange policy, an user with a problem won't report the bug.
Reporting a bug must be an easy, trivial task.
What we should do is to improve the bug system in order to make it easier
for the maintainer to merge the reports.
I follow my own policy, and I never check for previous reports.. =)
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