Subject: bug#78431: closed (Re: bug#78431: Unclear patch submission address)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 16:02:03 +0000

Your bug report

#78431: Unclear patch submission address

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#78431: Unclear patch submission address
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>, Collin Funk <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked],Ville Skyttä <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 09:01:10 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 2025-05-15 03:38, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I haven't strong opinions on this,
> so am happy to go with the proposed patch.

Thanks, I applied it and am closing the bug report.

Subject: Unclear patch submission address
From: Ville Skyttä <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 22:40:14 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

The HACKING and README-hacking files contain advice to send patches to the
email address in the respective program's --help output.

However, --help output might not contain any email addresses, such as for
example in the coreutils that ships with Ubuntu 25.04. Looks as if both
PACKAGE_PACKAGER and PACKAGE_PACKAGER_BUG_REPORTS need to be set in order
to have at least one address there.

Maybe some rephrasing of the hacking docs or adding fallback info there in
case of no other email address source would be in order.

Ville