Bug#500527: contradictory GCC bug reporting instructions
tag 500527 + wontfix
thanks
Ben Pfaff writes:
> Package: gcc-4.3
> Version: 4.3.2-1
>
> /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/README.Bugs says:
>
> There are complete instructions in the gcc info manual (found in the
> gcc-doc package), section Bugs.
>
> The gcc info manual in gcc-doc (version 5:2), in that section,
> has a list of criteria for reporting bugs, but then the section
> titled "How and where to Report Bugs" contains only one sentence:
>
> Bugs should be reported to the bug database at
> http://bugs.debian.org/.
>
> If these are indeed the complete instructions, then I would
> suggest that they be inserted directly into README.Bugs instead
> of forwarding the reader to the Info manual.
>
> It also seems odd that the "Summarized bug reporting
> instructions" later on in README.Bugs are much longer than the
> "complete" bug reporting instructions given in the info manual.
> I think that something must be missing.
not exactly missing, there are many sources, but people don't even
read the "Please include the preprocessed source" for internal
compiler errors. You may want to send a patch for consolidation. I
won't work on this.
Matthias
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