Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)
Hal Vaughan wrote:
Both of your comments involve disagreements over differences of
opinion -- but I can see where you're coming from and I think the point
about rewording the warnings in menu.lst would go a long way toward
addressing the issue that led me to file the bug report.
If filing the bug report had led to that kind of discussion, I would
have felt much better about it than I did when I decided to just give
up. I can deal with a disagreement. What I found frustrating was that
it felt like the focus was only on justifying why the bug was elsewhere
and there was no need to pursue it.
So it sounds like one possible solution that is agreeable to most in
this discussion is to improve the documentation on menu.lst.
I've found the best way to get something fixed in an open source project
is to develop a patch. Since this is documentation, it wouldn't be that
hard. You can find the default menu.lst around line 260 of
/usr/sbin/upgate-grub.
I don't know how knowledgeable whoever decides to do this is, but I can
help a bit with the process if needed. I'm not a DD, but I do file bugs
from time to time. :-)
Heck, one could even reopen the old bug, move it to grub, attach the
patch and hope for the best, but there's already another bug that's very
similar and might welcome such a patch (and a link to this discussion):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383282
Cheers,
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Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator
Federation of Students
University of Waterloo
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