Bug#856691: Minor tweaks to webpages about the bug-tracking system

Package: www.debian.org
Severity: minor

Can the following 3 things be clarified on the website:

* The item in the e-mails below about X-Debbugs-No-Ack & other pseudo-headers.

* On https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer there is a Table-of-Contents entry
that says: "Recording that you have passed on a bug report". This can sound
like "pass" in the Python programming language, i.e., "ignored." Maybe this
can be reworded like "Recording that you have notified someone else of a bug
report".

* On https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting , about 2/3 of the way down, it
says "If wish to report" instead of "If you wish to report".

Thanks.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: No-Ack pseudo-header didn't seem to work
From: [email protected]
To: dg1727 <[email protected]>
[email protected] <[email protected]>

On Fri, 03 Mar 2017, dg1727 wrote:

> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854326#10 has an
> X-Debbugs-No-Ack pseudo-header, but I got an ack e-mail anyway.
>
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting says "the contents of this
> header do not matter".

The psuedoheader parsing code is a bit different from the header parsing
code, and requires that there is a content after the colon. [This
limitation doesn't exist for the headers, though.]

So... the content doesn't matter, but pseudoheaders need content.

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