GNU bug report logs - #14556
suggestion for 'ls' coreutil, comma'd filesizes in -l output

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 20:24:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: 14556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, smujohnson <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#14556: suggestion for 'ls' coreutil, comma'd filesizes in -l output
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:09:31 -0600
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> > My take on this is that you have discovered a doc bug, in that our web
> > page is not making it clear that our bug reporting address is a publicly
> > archived mailing list (although this setup is typical for most open
> > source projects, it is not universal; and it takes an outsider's
> > perspective like yours to make us realize that we have unstated
> > assumptions that ended up surprising you).  We could probably add a
> > sentence or two to the web page that makes it clear that your post goes
> > to a list, that we are unable to scrub anything you post (so even though
> > we do our best to munge things to minimize the effects, we cannot
> > guarantee that spammers will not obtain your address from your post),
> > and that list policy is to reply-to-all to keep you in the loop without
> > forcing you to subscribe to the list.
> 
> Hopefully the current text is now obvious.

I like the new changes.  The text is now very clear.

Bob




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