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Re: JACK HOWARTH IS A FUCKING IDIOT(again)



Jérôme Marant <jmarant@nerim.net> wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
>>> What's the problem with submiting to submit@bugs rather than maintonly@bugs?

>>   $ w3m -dump -cols 72 http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting | grep -2 maintonly | head
>>   If a bug report is minor, for example, a documentation typo or a
>>   trivial build problem, please adjust the severity appropriately and
>>   send it to maintonly@bugs instead of submit@bugs. maintonly will
>>   forward the report to the package maintainer only, it won't forward it
>>   to the BTS mailing lists.
[...]   

>  So, yes, these are very special cases. Furthermore, people are not reading
>  the BTS docs all the time and they might have missed such details.

reportbug has the nice feature to send the minor and wishlist report to
maintonly per default.
                 cu andreas



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