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Re: mailman: security upgrade errors out with confusing and ineffective instructions



Hi,

Op ma 17 apr 2006 om 08:56:02 +0200 schreef Lionel Elie Mamane:
> 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?

http://pkg-mailman.alioth.debian.org/ seems more appropriate to me.

Bye,

Joost

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