bug#78431: Unclear patch submission address

2025-05-14 Thread Collin Funk
Paul Eggert writes: > Yes, now's a good time to revisit the decision in 2013 to remove the > bug-reporting email address[1]. Plus, the current code is confusing. > > How about the attached coreutils patch? It simplifies the code and > goes back to the old way of doing things, which includes outpu

bug#78431: Unclear patch submission address

2025-05-14 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2025-05-14 12:53, Collin Funk wrote: I think that adding an email regardless would be good Yes, now's a good time to revisit the decision in 2013 to remove the bug-reporting email address[1]. Plus, the current code is confusing. How about the attached coreutils patch? It simplifies the co

bug#78431: Unclear patch submission address

2025-05-14 Thread Collin Funk
Ville Skyttä writes: > The HACKING and README-hacking files contain advice to send patches to the > email address in the respective program's --help output. > > However, --help output might not contain any email addresses, such as for > example in the coreutils that ships with Ubuntu 25.04. Looks

bug#78431: Unclear patch submission address

2025-05-14 Thread Ville Skyttä
The HACKING and README-hacking files contain advice to send patches to the email address in the respective program's --help output. However, --help output might not contain any email addresses, such as for example in the coreutils that ships with Ubuntu 25.04. Looks as if both PACKAGE_PACKAGER and