Le Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 08:07:37PM +0100, Thierry Laronde écrivait: > Hello,
Hi, > I have made a bit of cleaning in the BTS about the bugs open against > util-linux. With Vincent benediction ? Anyway if what you did is right then nobody will complain. :) > The problem is that 15 (>25%) bugs are against `hwclock' alone. The most > obvious lack is about documentation (we've been discuting this in the > `Scary bugs' thread). > > What is the Debian-QA advice about this ? IMHO, it would be more easy to > handle a small package, and to work hard on the documentation, than keeping > a lot of very useful and used utilities merged, increasing the bugs against > one package, and making hard for the maintainer to have a synthetic view of > the problem, when a lot of problems reported are not software problems, but > "user's" problems because of a missing documentation. No, the good solution is to provide a patch to the upstream maintainer in order to include better documentation in the upstream source, this will increase the quality for everybody not only Debian. For debian specific documentation I guess that Vincent welcomes patches ... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ <pub> CD Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd </pub>
