On Sun 12 Jul 2015 at 17:57:26 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Wed 24 Jul 2013 at 15:30:31 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > On Tue 23 Jul 2013 at 13:48:52 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > > > > I believe the HOWTO_BUGREPORT_heavier should be a wiki. > > > > There is a lot to be said for that idea. Although I wrote it for my own > > benefit I did have #532097 in my mind. Quoting the fourth paragraph: > > > > To get the Debian cups bugs into some useful state again, someone who > > knows the Linux printing system very well needs to sit down and write > > a comprehensive "how to debug printing problems" document: in > > particular, how to identify in which package the problem is, which > > debug information to collect, and common workarounds/tests which help > > the reporter's immediate problem and are useful for diagnosis. > > > > I do not want to advocate strongly for a Debian package to necessarily > > include such a document but there are advantages to having it on the > > system because it is easily to hand and can be pointed to. Is there a > > reason why it could not be in both places? > > > > Anyway, the material I've presented is available for anyone to alter, > > correct, add to and transform into a wiki. > > Someone has now done this. :) Please see the links at the bottom of the > page at > > https://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting > > If HOWTO_BUGREPORT.txt stays in the cups package I still think it should > brought up-to-date. I'm unsure now in what way but, in any case, it is > not a priority. > > Unless there is an overwhelming demand to keep this bug report open I > will close it in the near future. > > Regards, > > Brian.
