On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 05:15:48PM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 08:12:51AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis > wrote: > > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 02:45:16PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > Yes, but there's still no bloody point in making the submitter hunt around > > > for information that the maintainer already knows and for which it takes > > > them full 10 seconds per bug to list (15 if they type very slowly). > > > > Submitter receive a mail from bts which include the message that opened the > > bug: what should he hunt for exactly? > > There are people other than submitter, maintainer and upstream ... > > Example: > 1. detect bug > 2. run reportbug > 3. sees, other person was faster and reported bug 42. > 4. wait for new version > 5. read changlog > 6. what the heck was bug 42, was it mine ? > > Or do you expect everbody to file duplicate bugs or subscribe to > existing bugs ?
Or better: 1. discover security vulnerability 2. was it fixed in the Debian package? 3. read changelog 4. see a bunch of completely worthless "Closes:" messages 5. throttle maintainer -- - mdz
