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> > It is useful to include a reference to the bug data base. > > But don't omit anything on the assumption that people have access to > > that data base. > That's asking for too much, and in practice developers typically don't do what's > being asked for. Many bug reports are complex, and one must read them carefully > to understand the bugs. We can't reasonably ask developers to write and read > commit messages containing every detail of every report of a bug that was fixed. > On the contrary: the GNU bug database is a useful tool for simplifying > maintenance, and we should take advantage of it when that is a win. I don't follow the response -- I have a feeling we are miscommunicating somehow. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.
