Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 05:15:48PM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 08:12:51AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 02:45:16PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > Yes, but there's still no bloody point in making the submitter hunt around
> > > for information that the maintainer already knows and for which it takes
> > > them full 10 seconds per bug to list (15 if they type very slowly).
> >
> > Submitter receive a mail from bts which include the message that opened the
> > bug: what should he hunt for exactly?
>
> There are people other than submitter, maintainer and upstream ...
>
> Example:
> 1. detect bug
> 2. run reportbug
> 3. sees, other person was faster and reported bug 42.
> 4. wait for new version
> 5. read changlog
> 6. what the heck was bug 42, was it mine ?
>
> Or do you expect everbody to file duplicate bugs or subscribe to
> existing bugs ?
Or better:
1. discover security vulnerability
2. was it fixed in the Debian package?
3. read changelog
4. see a bunch of completely worthless "Closes:" messages
5. throttle maintainer
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- mdz
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