Bug#575920: reportbug: ask for the version of the package to be reported as buggy
Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: 2010/3/30 Łukasz Stelmach lukasz.stelm...@iem.pw.edu.pl: Package: reportbug Version: 4.10.2 Severity: wishlist Yesterday I managed to fix a problem with nvidia-glx package. I installed the version from the unstable repository. The I filed a bug report about, as I was hoping, the older buggy version. Because and what version would that be? how can reportbug select the correct version? how can reportbug know the /older/ version? or you may mean the two-versions-ago, or any other variation. First write your reply then maybe read what it is about? reportbug generates a template with a fat sing Please type etc. and I am not too interested in details of Debian bug reporting process I don't even look above that line. I should have. The bug was filed against the unstable version which wasn't my intention nad got closed immediatelly. if you managed to fix a bug in a version that's already superseded by the unstable one, then you should not in the first place report the bug. a fix that's already in unstable will (sooner or later) transit to testing and then to stable so there's nothing to fix. Such a report might make this happen sooner which might be... convenient for other, maybe less skilled, users who (they should die and go to hell) happen to use Debian testing. You know, even noobs sometimes use google which quite oftne points to bugreports. How about having one with a workaround? I wish report bug explicitly asked a question File the report against version X.Y.Z [Y|n]: Since you know what version you want to file the bugs against, you can use the option reportbug already provides: -V PKGVERSION, --package-version=PKGVERSION specify the version number for the package Great option, I'd like to have yet another one. Dou you like Perl? I do. In most cases users hit [Enter]. It'd be closer to other bug tracking systems wher users choose on their own the version to be reported as buggy. this is not an argument: using debian BTS you should stick to its peculiarities, like this one. Thank gods there are people who don't alway to stick to peculiarities and we don't need to program computers with a magnetised needle. If it's too hard for you to name things properly I ask for a change in the user's interface. Making the bugreporting interface comfortable is the first step to get better reports. That said, I'm closing this report. Wonderful feeling isn't it? -- Miłego dnia, Łukasz Stelmach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#575920: reportbug: ask for the version of the package to be reported as buggy
2010/4/1 Łukasz Stelmach lukasz.stelm...@iem.pw.edu.pl: Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: 2010/3/30 Łukasz Stelmach lukasz.stelm...@iem.pw.edu.pl: Package: reportbug Version: 4.10.2 Severity: wishlist Yesterday I managed to fix a problem with nvidia-glx package. I installed the version from the unstable repository. The I filed a bug report about, as I was hoping, the older buggy version. Because and what version would that be? how can reportbug select the correct version? how can reportbug know the /older/ version? or you may mean the two-versions-ago, or any other variation. First write your reply then maybe read what it is about? your rule should apply to you to...and you failed. Ah, you didn't reply to those questions, maybe because you can't; also, you saved some time, because I don't care. reportbug generates a template with a fat sing Please type etc. and I am not too interested in details of Debian bug reporting process I don't even look above that line. I should have. The bug was filed against the unstable version which wasn't my intention nad got closed immediatelly. if you managed to fix a bug in a version that's already superseded by the unstable one, then you should not in the first place report the bug. a fix that's already in unstable will (sooner or later) transit to testing and then to stable so there's nothing to fix. Such a report might make this happen sooner which might be... convenient for other, maybe less skilled, users who (they should die and go to hell) happen to use Debian testing. You know, even noobs sometimes use google which quite oftne points to bugreports. How about having one with a workaround? WTH are you talking about? you don't even know (from what you wrote above) how packages and bugs fixing are managed in Debian that you can also take the freedom to be sarcastic? I wish report bug explicitly asked a question File the report against version X.Y.Z [Y|n]: Since you know what version you want to file the bugs against, you can use the option reportbug already provides: -V PKGVERSION, --package-version=PKGVERSION specify the version number for the package Great option, I'd like to have yet another one. Dou you like Perl? I do. Use that option, stop. In most cases users hit [Enter]. It'd be closer to other bug tracking systems wher users choose on their own the version to be reported as buggy. this is not an argument: using debian BTS you should stick to its peculiarities, like this one. Thank gods there are people who don't alway to stick to peculiarities and we don't need to program computers with a magnetised needle. If it's too hard for you to name things properly I ask for a change in the user's interface. Making the bugreporting interface comfortable is the first step to get better reports. No, there's nothing to make more comfortable: read the manpage, pass the correct option, report the bug. You can also send an email to sub...@bugs.debian.org if you feel the MUA interface is comfortable enough to you. That said, I'm closing this report. Wonderful feeling isn't it? Yeah, the sound of you going away: priceless. -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#575920: reportbug: ask for the version of the package to be reported as buggy
Package: reportbug Version: 4.10.2 Severity: wishlist Yesterday I managed to fix a problem with nvidia-glx package. I installed the version from the unstable repository. The I filed a bug report about, as I was hoping, the older buggy version. Because reportbug generates a template with a fat sing Please type etc. and I am not too interested in details of Debian bug reporting process I don't even look above that line. I should have. The bug was filed against the unstable version which wasn't my intention nad got closed immediatelly. I wish report bug explicitly asked a question File the report against version X.Y.Z [Y|n]: In most cases users hit [Enter]. It'd be closer to other bug tracking systems wher users choose on their own the version to be reported as buggy. -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: INTERFACE=text ** /home/steelman/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version 3.39 mode standard ui text realname Łukasz Stelmach email lukasz.stelm...@iem.pw.edu.pl -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii python2.5.4-9An interactive high-level object-o ii python-reportbug 4.10.2 Python modules for interacting wit reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn debconf-utilsnone (no description available) pn debsums none (no description available) pn dlocate none (no description available) ii emacs23-bin-common 23.1+1-5The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc ii exim44.71-3 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [ 4.71-3 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon ii file 5.04-1 Determines file type using magic ii gnupg1.4.10-2GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii python-gtk2 2.16.0-2Python bindings for the GTK+ widge ii python-gtkspell 2.25.3-4.1+b3 Python bindings for the GtkSpell l pn python-urwid none (no description available) ii python-vte 1:0.22.5-3 Python bindings for the VTE widget ii xdg-utils1.0.2+cvs20100307-1 desktop integration utilities from -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
