On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:48:10PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > forcemerge 417256 422085 > stop > > > Am 03.05.2007 15:09 schrieb Julien Cristau: > > Package: reportbug-ng > > Version: 0.2007.04.27 > > Severity: normal > > Merging this bug with 417256 and thus downgrading it to wishlist. > > > reportbug provides a way to control how bugs are reported on a > > particular package, by adding files in /usr/share/bug/$package. However > > reportbug-ng doesn't seem to use that information, which means that bugs > > reported with it lack very important information. In particular, > > without the output of /usr/share/bug/$package/script, many reports are > > useless. > > I really doubt that. Just a few packages use this feature and if you as > a maintainer are really missing some information, you can always ask the > submitter for it. > > You say that bugs with rng lack of important information and that many > of them are useless. Could you please backup this claim by a few > examples? I've reported many bugs so far and seldom found that the stuff > which was added automatically provided any useful information regarding > this bug. In contrast, I was pretty annoyed by some packages abusing > this feature. I don't know which package it was (I think it was XServer) > but I had to read a few pages of presubj and my bugreport was full of > useless config crap.
Your arguments are utter crap. The few packages that use
/usr/share/bug/$package/* are packages that are already hard enough to
package, not to make their maintenance worse. So FWIW I disagree with
you, I'd even say that this bug is important and not normal. It's not
because *YOU* don't see what it's worth to have those informations, that
you should decide unilaterally not to support the current de facto
standard.
I even think this is described in the policy or in the dev ref.
And fwiw don't make me cry, supporting this is *JUST* doing:
commands.getoutput("/usr/share/doc/%(package)s/script &3>1")
IMNSHO any claimed reportbug replacement should support
/usr/share/bug/$(package)/* extensions to be releasable.
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