Re: Bug#204928: reportbug: couldn't call from xargs
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:20:04PM -0400, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> Congratulations on managing to file a duplicate report. Of an issue
> *you reported*, no less. (Determining the number of the duplicate
> report is left as an exercise for the submitter; hint, it's one of the
> dozens of reports from you.) Closing...
I think you need to add an explanation to some of these bug reports why
you have marked then as "wontfix", and make sure it goes in the BTS.
Some of them, at first glance look like reasonable bug reports, and it
is not always immediately obvious to other people why they have been
marked as "wontfix".
Also some bugs seem to be merged together which, IMHO, are entirely
unrelated except for the submitter.
For example:
#172433: error in documentation (not in stable; maybe unstable?).
#174135: xargs | reportbug -f doesn't work.
#174261: feature request for -f.
I can't see any reason why these reports were merged together.
If anything, I would have merged #174135 with #204928 though, as #204928
adds another question (Why not an error message?).
True, ideally the bug reporter would have submitted to bug #174135
instead of opening up a new bug, and reportbug should have been
sufficient to help him do this...
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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