GNU bug report logs - #41373
GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages

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Message #50 received at 41373 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: bzg <at> gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru, 41373 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org,
 stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package
 pages
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:41:55 +0300

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:29:14 -0700
> Cc: 41373 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>,
>  Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
> 
> +  (interactive (list
> +                (read-string "Bug Subject: ")
> +                (completing-read
> +                 "Package: "
> +                 (progn
> +                   (package-initialize)
> +                   package-alist)
> +                 nil nil)))

Does this mean reporting a bug will initialize all the packages that
are installed?  Will it also access the network and check for
upgrades?

I'm not sure I understand the need to produce a potentially huge list
of completion candidates, when it isn't even clear that the bug is
about some add-on package.  Can we be smarter about this?

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