Re: description of "general" pseudo-package is misleading (leads people to use it as a catch-all)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Don Armstrong wrote:

> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting already tells people to contact
> -user if they are unable to determine which package their bug report
> should be filed against. I suppose text could be added to reportbug to
> mimic this... perhaps changing:

Very nice.  Filed as http://bugs.debian.org/661563

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> I suppose I could change it to general -- "Problems which affect many
> packages (blah blah blah)".

Yes, that sounds good to me.  I guess technically it is closer to
"Problems which afflict many packages", since, for example, "I can't
boot" would affect my ability to use all packages, but I'm not too
worried about that particular confusion.

Thanks,
Jonathan