About forwarding bugs and patches to Debian and documenting your changes

[Loïc Minier]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> In the first case (one bug per package), I think that this creates a
> huge overhead, and is not going to work. You will have problems
> convincing people to file a bug each time they make a very simple change
> that needs to be done in tens of packages.
> 
> In the second case, as long as there's a simple place with documentation
> about the change, I'm happy. But I think that a wiki page is a better
> solution because it's easier to summarize a problem (people can edit the
> summary). With a bug report, you sometimes have to read a very long
> discussion before you understand the current state of the issue.

 Please file a bug per package; using a single bug for multiple packages
 which are not under the same maintenance causes painful spamming of
 subscribers with no easy way to ignore traffic not related to the
 package you care about.

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Loïc Minier