On Thu, May 3, 2007 at 16:48:10 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > 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.
Which means: - lost time for me - lost time for the submitter - more often than not, this information is never given If I'm requesting that information, it's not to annoy you, it's because without it bug reports are useless, and it's easy for any bug reporting tool to include it. If you find that a package adds useless information in its script, then file a bug against that package, but the bug reporting tool is not the place to make that call. I don't consider this as a wishlist bug. > > 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? Any bug reported against the xserver-xorg* packages. Cheers, Julien
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