Re: Bug#422085: Better terminal emulator patch
severity 422085 serious
thanks
Hi there,
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:47:54AM +0100, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> > 1. I *personally* hated that some packages sent a *huge* amount of
> > 2. I *personally* was very annoyed by packages with very long presubj
> > 3. I'm definitely opposed to a feature which will pop up a *terminal*
> > 4. I was *personally* very annoyed by some of the reactions on this
> Luckily our priorities are Our Users and Free Software, not Bastian
> Venthur. Applying David's patch *immediately* means that maintainers
> get more useful bug reports that help them fix bugs, and in the end our
> users get a better support. I hope you realise that reportbug-ng being
> non-functional with a handful of packages means that users will have to
> use reportbug to report a bug on these packages. So they will see the
> ugly terminal anyway.
>
> I don't think anyone is opposed to rethink the way bug scripts are
> handled (even in reportbug) so that they integrate better with the
> reportbug-ng interface. But that should not prevent improvements from
> happening first. So I suggest you do that right now, or let someone
> else NMU reportbug-ng.
I agree with Sam's conclusion. I hereby conclude that reportbug-ng is,
in its present condition, unfit for release. Thus I raise the severity
of this bug report to serious.
reportbug-ng needs to be a good citizen and needs to use the
infrastructure currently in place to provide good bug reports.
This makes it easier (and faster) to get the bugs fixed.
I suppose that your intention behind writing reportbug-ng is to ease bug
reporting for our users. It must not ignore information explicitly
requested by package maintainers by the means of bug scripts. I do not
see how both goals, providing the necessary information to those who
handle the bug reports and making it easy for the reporters, collide.
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
--
.''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer
: :' : http://philkern.de Debian Release Assistant
`. `' xmpp:phil@0x539.de
`- finger pkern/key@db.debian.org
Reply to: