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Re: Bug#88588: libpam-modules: pam-limits.so is broken



John Galt wrote:
> Encouraging people to not file bugs for whatever reason is contributing to
> the hiding of problems: someone's take on one bug may cast light on a
> totally separate (and possibly unreported) bug.
> 
> Discouraging people to file bugs for whatever reason substantially lessens
> the users perceived priority: The DD's peace of mind is apparently more
> important than the user's working system.

Of course all of the above makes the flawed assumption that users cannot
contribute additional details or reports of a bug to the *same* bug
report. And in fact that is a thing we encourage users to do, via
reportbug and other tools. It has all the benefits of filing duplicate
bugs, and none of the administrative disadvantages.

-- 
see shy jo



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