Bug#717596: cups: Jessie deserves a new HOWTO_BUGREPORT.txt?
On Wed 24 Jul 2013 at 15:30:31 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Tue 23 Jul 2013 at 13:48:52 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>
> > I believe the HOWTO_BUGREPORT_heavier should be a wiki.
>
> There is a lot to be said for that idea. Although I wrote it for my own
> benefit I did have #532097 in my mind. Quoting the fourth paragraph:
>
> To get the Debian cups bugs into some useful state again, someone who
> knows the Linux printing system very well needs to sit down and write
> a comprehensive "how to debug printing problems" document: in
> particular, how to identify in which package the problem is, which
> debug information to collect, and common workarounds/tests which help
> the reporter's immediate problem and are useful for diagnosis.
>
> I do not want to advocate strongly for a Debian package to necessarily
> include such a document but there are advantages to having it on the
> system because it is easily to hand and can be pointed to. Is there a
> reason why it could not be in both places?
>
> Anyway, the material I've presented is available for anyone to alter,
> correct, add to and transform into a wiki.
Someone has now done this. :) Please see the links at the bottom of the
page at
https://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting
If HOWTO_BUGREPORT.txt stays in the cups package I still think it should
brought up-to-date. I'm unsure now in what way but, in any case, it is
not a priority.
Unless there is an overwhelming demand to keep this bug report open I
will close it in the near future.
Regards,
Brian.
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