On Monday 02 October 2017 10:04:05 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 09:39:38AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 05:47:52PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > Patches are welcome. File a bug against "grep" package, make a > > > world a better place. > > > > It has been my experience, in general, that man page patches are > > rarely welcome. Especially by Debian packagers of programs that get > > their man pages from upstream. > > > > If the program is written *by* Debian, then there may be a chance, > > but this is not the case with GNU grep. > > What benefits the community more - a (possibly) deserved rant in a > maillist, or a patch in Debian bugtracker? > The former gets read by more eyes, and possibly warns others who will never read the bugtracker. And make me feel better. ;-) My own interfacing with the bug tracker back in my fedora 1 and 2 days was less than a satisfying experience.
> Reco Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>