Re: Minor rewording for Bugs/Reporting.wml
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 02:30:38PM +0200, Tobias Toedter wrote:
> I think the description of how to report a bug with a MUA (instead of
> reportbug) should be updated.
>
> reportbug constructs a subject line of the form
> Subject: <packagename>: <bug summary>, and this is not explicitely mentioned
> as good practice in the section for MUAs.
>
> I've prepared a patch for this, and I'd welcome any comments on it
> (especially on the wording -- I'm not a native speaker). If not one
> objects, I would commit this (given that the grammar is alright).
I don't know, this is kind of a 'reportbug'ism (or possibly a 'bug'ism,
I can't remember ...). I certainly know people who think that putting
the package name in the subject is redundant and wastes space that could
otherwise be used for a more informative subject line, so I'm hesitant
to recommend it in the bug system's documentation.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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