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Unclear patch submission address

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 78431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta <at> iki.fi>
Subject: bug#78431: Unclear patch submission address
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 11:38:15 +0100

On 14/05/2025 21:40, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2025-05-14 12:53, Collin Funk wrote:
>> I think that adding an email regardless would be good
> 
> 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.
> 
> [1]:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=8b6d3c5700526f962b12cd5901b55961c5e18186

Thanks for discussing this on list.
The main reason for the current instructions
was to avoid non bug reports on the bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org list,
but I haven't strong opinions on this,
so am happy to go with the proposed patch.

cheers,
Pádraig

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