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

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Message #56 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 22:38:04 +0300

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
> Cc: bzg <at> gnu.org,  41373 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  stefankangas <at> gmail.com,
>   rms <at> gnu.org,  dgutov <at> yandex.ru
> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:25:11 -0700
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Right, this is the part of the suggestion with the biggest question
> marks. I can imagine the prompt would get annoying for frequent
> contributors who are mostly filing bugs against emacs itself.
> 
> The only thing I can think of is providing a separate command,
> `report-emacs-package-bug', that is a thin wrapper around
> `report-emacs-bug'. That could live in package.el.

I thought about making some conclusions from the text of the report,
which may contain function names.  Of course, this is only possible
after the report is written and is about to be sent.

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