Bug#717596: cups: Jessie deserves a new HOWTO_BUGREPORT.txt?
On Sun 12 Jul 2015 at 17:57:26 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> 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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