On Saturday 21 July 2007 16:42, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Not really -- at least not in my eyes. In my understanding this site > documents how to file bug reports. Reportbug and others are introduced > as tools to help to ease the pain of doing it by hand. But that does not > imply something like: emulate one of those tools' behavior as close as > possible. It's good to realise why we have such bug reporting tools. Their goals are: 1) To ease the process of reporting bugs for users; 2) To provide as useful reports as possible to developers, hence improving Debian because more time can be spent on solving the bugs rather than asking more information. Several different developers have already indicated that the feature debated here is important for them to reach goal two of such a helper. I do not see how such a feature would hurt goal 1. So why reject the feature? What does it hurt? We already have a helper that provides such information. If we create a new helper, is there a good reason to have it provide less information, even if the maintainers of that package have explicitly asked for it? Thijs
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