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Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers?



On Monday 02 October 2017 10:04:05 Reco wrote:

> 	Hi.
>
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 09:39:38AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 05:47:52PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > > Patches are welcome. File a bug against "grep" package, make a
> > > world a better place.
> >
> > It has been my experience, in general, that man page patches are
> > rarely welcome.  Especially by Debian packagers of programs that get
> > their man pages from upstream.
> >
> > If the program is written *by* Debian, then there may be a chance,
> > but this is not the case with GNU grep.
>
> What benefits the community more - a (possibly) deserved rant in a
> maillist, or a patch in Debian bugtracker?
>
The former gets read by more eyes, and possibly warns others who will 
never read the bugtracker.  And make me feel better. ;-) My own 
interfacing with the bug tracker back in my fedora 1 and 2 days was less 
than a satisfying experience.

> Reco


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