On Saturday 21 July 2007 14:44, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Rng was by the way not intended to be a 1:1 replacement for reportbug or > just a reportbug-with-GUI. This is not really supported by the naming of your program (an edit distance of 3 with reportbug) nor by the description. Those two will suggest to the casual user that this is a tool that you could use just as well as the regular 'reportbug' tool. Different maintainers have already registered that this is not the case for them and reportbug-ng provides less quality bug reports to them. That is the good right of reportbug-ng, but if this is by design then reportbug-ng should be clear to users that it's not actually a replacement for reportbug. > But nevertheless, I agree that this bug report is worth a read. It > nicely demonstrates how some developers use to argue with others. Like those developers that prefer spending their time on writing statements to the technical committee rather than adding the feature? :-) Thijs
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