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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From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta <at> iki.fi>
To: 78431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#78431: Unclear patch submission address
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 22:40:14 +0300

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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

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