---- David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > > > On Thu 08 Dec 2011 21:32, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes: > > > >>> So please keep up your (useful!) bug reports, but try to give them a > >>> more positive flavor :) > >> > >> Could you give an example how to deliver with a positive flavor a report > >> about deprecation messages talking about the wrong function, telling you > >> in vague terms to use something instead for which no documentation is > >> available, with both the state of documentation and message apparently > >> being the same for years? > > > > Sure! Here's one from about a week ago: > > > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.bugs/5953 > > > > There are many more there. > > > > Using bug-guile also has the advantage that it's given an entry in > > debbugs, so that we don't forget about it. > > An application "bug-guile" is not available as a command line tool, or > as a guile function in a standard installation of Guile on Ubuntu. > > The Guile reference manual for the currently distributed version (1.8.8) > has a long chapter "Reporting Bugs" that starts with > > Any problems with the installation should be reported to > <bug-gu...@gnu.org>. > > An application "guile-bug" is mentioned nowhere.
"bug-gu...@gnu.org" is a mailing list, not an application. You use your email application to send the bug report. -Dale
