bug#78431: Unclear patch submission address
Pádraig Brady <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 14/05/2025 21:40, Paul Eggert wrote: > 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 code and goes > back to the old way of doing things, which includes outputting the bug > reporting address. > > If this doesn't generate the output we want, surely we should change > Gnulib's emit_bug_reporting_address rather than try to reinvent it. > > [1]: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=8b6d3c5700526f962b12cd5901b55961c5e18186 Thanks for discussing this on list. The main reason for the current instructions was to avoid non bug reports on the [email protected] list, but I haven't strong opinions on this, so am happy to go with the proposed patch. cheers, Pádraig