Re: Re^2: Intent to write: ITP

[Michael Piefel <piefel@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Am 28.06.01 um 06:35:46 schrieb Susan G. Kleinmann:
> While reportbug is useful, it has the disadvantage that the command
> 'reportbug wnpp' forces one to wait a fairly long time (while it downloads
> the current list of ITP, etc. packages) before one can start writing an ITP.

But this way you can check whether this ITP has already been submitted.
Of course you might already have checked that beforehand; simply use
--no-query-bts then.

> The advantage of adopting a specific format is that the many ITP's 
> could easily be searched using a powerful tool like grep-dctrl.

This could be a nice enhancement, that's for sure.

Bye,
    Mike

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