mailman: security upgrade errors out with confusing and ineffective instructions
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:43:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 08 April 2006 00:01, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> I tried to get this documented in
>> http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/sarge/releasenotes, but didn't get
>> any answer from the robster, and forgot about the issue. Hey, people
>> of debian-doc, could you please read
>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mailman-hackers/2006-Janua
>> ry/000559.html and react accordingly? Thanks.
> I can find no bug for this on http://bugs.debian.org/release-notes.
> How did you request this?
The wrong way. I found somewhere instructions saying "to get things in
the release notes, write to robster", and I did that. I can't find
these instructions again.
> If you feel this should still happen, please file a bug against
> release-notes
Will do.
> The emphasis is on short! If you need more than about 10 lines of
> text, you should only explain the nature of the issue and provide a
> link to a document elsewhere that has the full explanation and
> solution. That document should of course be available before the
> user upgrades and stay available for the lifetime of Sarge.
What do you suggest this "elsewhere" be? Would mailing list archives
be appropriate?
--
Lionel
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