Re: Quality advice : split `hwclock' from util-linux ?
Le Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 08:07:37PM +0100, Thierry Laronde écrivait:
> Hello,
Hi,
> I have made a bit of cleaning in the BTS about the bugs open against
> util-linux.
With Vincent benediction ? Anyway if what you did is right then nobody
will complain. :)
> The problem is that 15 (>25%) bugs are against `hwclock' alone. The most
> obvious lack is about documentation (we've been discuting this in the
> `Scary bugs' thread).
>
> What is the Debian-QA advice about this ? IMHO, it would be more easy to
> handle a small package, and to work hard on the documentation, than keeping
> a lot of very useful and used utilities merged, increasing the bugs against
> one package, and making hard for the maintainer to have a synthetic view of
> the problem, when a lot of problems reported are not software problems, but
> "user's" problems because of a missing documentation.
No, the good solution is to provide a patch to the upstream maintainer
in order to include better documentation in the upstream source, this will
increase the quality for everybody not only Debian. For debian specific
documentation I guess that Vincent welcomes patches ...
Cheers,
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