Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:13:07PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:25:44PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > > > Yes, I understand that, and I mostly agree. Now please write a lintian
> > > > warning for PT_GNU_STACK. Mass bug filing me even before a lintian
> > > > warning exists is not polite.
> > >
> > > As far as I can see, this is the _only_ bug report by Greg Norris on the
> > > PT_GNU_STACK issue! How can it be a mass bug filling ?
> > 
> > Because many of the packages I maintain are also built on woody.
> 
> And how was the submitter supposed to know ? 
>
> Alternatively, is it sufficient that all your packages has the same
> problem to forbid people from reporting it ?

No, but it is sufficient that a problem is common to many packages to
have a lintian warning for it, before submitting bug reports.

I'll quote from the Debian FAQ:

[...] if you detect a bug in a package which is likely to appear in
other packages too, it might be better to get in contact with the
Lintian maintainers at lintian-maint@debian.org so that a new check is
written for Lintian instead of reporting the bug directly. This will
most likely prevent the bug to appear in future versions of the
package again, or in any other package of the distribution.