Reporting same bug in different packages

erent If d.devel.general is the wrong group, I beg you all pardon and would be thankful for naming a proper group. Patrick -- Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two Patrick Strasser Student of Telemati_cs_, Techn. University Graz, Austria -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: Reporting same bug in different packages

schrieb Patrick Strasser am 2011-05-02 19:20: >> I want to report a bug, which occurs in two packages (okular, xpdf) >> exactly the same way. It's a problem with rendering PDFs. >> What would be the right way: > >> * File two bugs and refer to each other in a addi

Re: Reporting same bug in different packages

schrieb Patrick Strasser am 2011-05-03 15:23: > [..] details in the bug report. #625452 Patrick -- Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two Patrick Strasser Student of Telemati_cs_, Techn. University Graz, Austria -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Reporting same bug in different packages

schrieb Josselin Mouette am 2011-05-03 17:22: > Le mardi 03 mai 2011 à 15:56 +0200, Patrick Strasser a écrit : > Congratulations, you have added yet another bug on the pile that no one > ever reads, since there are no real maintainers for poppler. Now that's really bad. Alternati

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

rtbug as preferred way to report bugs, just HTTP transport. No one would think if reportbug to rely on mail transport for getting the bug list... Regards Patrick -- Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two Patrick Strasser Student of Telemati_cs_, Techn. University Graz, Austria --

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

schrieb Ian Jackson am 2011-05-24 13:34: > Patrick Strasser writes ("Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated"): >> What is the advantage of having a mail-only BTS reporting mechanism? > > The advantage is that no-one can make _other_ user interfaces to bug > submission

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

schrieb Josselin Mouette am 2011-05-24 17:50: > Le mardi 24 mai 2011 à 17:05 +0200, Patrick Strasser a écrit : >>> The fat end is a web form for users to submit bugs. >> >> Would that be so bad? > > We would get more bug reports. > > We already receive mor

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

schrieb Sune Vuorela am 2011-05-24 17:33: > On 2011-05-24, Patrick Strasser wrote: >> Pros and cons for reportbug HTTP transport: > > Heh. your pro's is all about the user. > the con is all about the developer. 1) reportbug is about to enable users to help developers solv

Getting good bug reports

schrieb Russ Allbery on 2011-05-24 18:55: > Patrick Strasser writes: First, I want to emphasize that I do not at all advocate for a web reporting form. IMO most contributors to this thread do so. I regard the overall process of reporting bugs in Debian very sensible, no need to change

Re: Getting good bug reports

eport to a file and give the user instructions how to submit the bug later, maybe from a different host. Patrick -- Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two Patrick Strasser Student of Telemati_cs_, Techn. University Graz, Austria -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@li