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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 20738@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20738: 25.0.50; grep/compilation output sometimes has text prop `compilation-message' on final line
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:29:09 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11132197-46a1-4ea4-9add-1f4494cfeb13@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu2o8dbn.fsf@gnus.org>

> >> Do you have a recipe?
> >
> > No.
> 
> Then it seems unlikely that we'll make further progress here, and I'm
> closing this bug report.

Dunno how you figure that it's unlikely.  I said,
at the outset:

  It happens sometimes and not other times, but it's not
  clear to me what the criteria are.

  Also, I can reproduce it with Emacs versions as far
  back as 24.1  (I haven't tried further back.  I think
  24.1 is maybe when property `compilation-message' was
  first introduced anyway.)

The bug exists.  I don't have recipe to repro it.

There's no relation between not having a recipe and the
frequency of the problem occurring - zero.

The choices, IMO, are to either (1) leave the bug open,
hoping that at some point someone will find or stumble
upon a recipe or a solution or (2) close it, knowing
that the bug exists.

It's not uncommon for bugs to later get more info and
be solved (#1).  Of course, if the real aim is to keep
down the bug count, as opposed to recording bugs in
hopes of fixing them, then #2 can happen.

That sometimes happens in organizations where QA is
judged by the outstanding bug count.  (IMHO, that has
no place in free software.)





      reply	other threads:[~2020-08-21 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-05  6:43 bug#20738: 25.0.50; grep/compilation output sometimes has text prop `compilation-message' on final line Drew Adams
2015-06-05  7:20 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-20 17:03   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 17:49     ` Drew Adams
2020-08-21 11:10       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-21 15:29         ` Drew Adams [this message]

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