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GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages

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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: dgutov <at> yandex.ru, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, 41373 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 22:30:40 -0700

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Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

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> We could have report-emacs-bug ask for which package the bug is in.
> The Bug Subject argument could be one of the acceptable package names,
> including 'emacs' and whichever ELPA packages have been loaded.  The
> user could specify one of those.
>
> If the definition of a package says where to send bug reports for it,
> report-emacs-bug could send each bug to the right place.
>
> If Bug Subject argument isn't on that list, report-emacs-bug could ask,
> "Would you like to specify one of the ELPA packages that have been
> loaded?"  But you would not have to do that.  If Bug Subject is unknown,
> the message would go to bug-gnu-emacs, as now.

Several years ago I cooked up something basic like that. I've attached
the patch from that thread, which might serve as the basis for something
usable.

Eric

[0001-Cc-package-maintainers-when-reporting-emacs-bugs.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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