Hi. On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:23:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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.
But the eyes that are viewing bugtracker usually come attached to hands, which in turn have an access to a commit bit. Bugtracker, no matter how ugly - [1], unsatisfying - [2] or weird - [3] it is - is a small price to pay to achieve greater good. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ [2] https://bugs.debian.org [3] https://bugzilla.suse.com Reco