Re: paul: NEWS.Debian abuse
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, David B Harris wrote:
> But we have a nice new channel to provide information to users in a
> convenient, pleasant manner. It would be a real shame to have it
> degenerate into something useless (or worse than useless). Aside from
> phpmyadmin, I've seen one other NEWS.Debian entry (not released, and the
> maintainer is waiting for a patch from me) that was WAAAAY too long.
> That's 2 out of 5 NEWS.Debian entries I've seen thus far :) And I wrote
> two of them myself ;)
Speaking for myself (as one of the missusers ;-) ) I agree with you that
we have to defend missusage and the fact that my fixed package is in
Incoming might underline this.
> So I'll continue filing them as "normal" until it's apparent that
> they're minor bugs in the odd package as opposed to a general trend.
But I think I would have done the same if this bug would have had a lower
priority (all bugs should be fixed) and thus I think we should apply
normal rules of using BTS also to these type of bugs. It might confuse
users as well if you set priority to high.
Just my two cents
Andreas.
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