Re: Mistake on https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

Jonny Grant <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 04/04/18 14:28, Laura Arjona Reina wrote:
> Hello Jonny
> 
> El 04/04/18 a las 13:40, Jonny Grant escribió:
>> Hello
>>
>> There is a mistake "sudo" is missing
>>
>> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
>>
> 
> Thanks for caring about the Debian website.

Thank you for your reply Laura

>> =====
>> We strongly recommend that you report bugs in Debian using the reportbug
>> program. To install and start it, simply run:
>>
>> # apt-get install reportbug
>> $ reportbug
>> ==========
>>
> 
> It's not a mistake:
> The sign "#" is to show that the apt-get command has to be entered with root
> privileges, and the "$" shows that the reportbug command can be entered as
> normal user.
> Each user can decide how to get the root privileges: using su, sudo, or whatever
> they think it's best.

I think this is the difficulty debian will have "going mainstream". 
We're not all sysadmins. Of course I know what "#" means, but users 
aren't sysadmins. What I explain is just what other modern distros do, 
eg Ubuntu. eg
https://askubuntu.com/questions/766071/install-gnome-shell-on-ubuntu-16-04

Most beginner users have no idea what "su" or "sudo" is

Based on this, would debian follow a modern approach? We're in 2018, not 
2001!

Jonathan
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