GNU bug report logs - #78431
Unclear patch submission address

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta <at> iki.fi>

Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 19:41:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 78431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 78431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta <at> iki.fi>,
 P <at> draigBrady.com
Subject: Re: bug#78431: Unclear patch submission address
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 16:22:17 -0700
Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> Yes, now's a good time to revisit the decision in 2013 to remove the
> bug-reporting email address[1]. Plus, the current code is confusing.
>
> How about the attached coreutils patch? It simplifies the code and
> goes back to the old way of doing things, which includes outputting
> the bug reporting address.
>
> If this doesn't generate the output we want, surely we should change
> Gnulib's emit_bug_reporting_address rather than try to reinvent it.

I think the change is good, but lets wait for Pádraig's thoughts since
he disliked this many lines in --help, which resulted in the current
output [1].

Collin

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-02/msg00156.html




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