From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug reporting Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:26:30 +0100 Message-ID: <45A27EC6.9080209@gmail.com> References: <45A1F9F1.4050500@swipnet.se> <17826.570.959259.398020@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <45A226FF.30507@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168277217 24729 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2007 17:26:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:26:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 08 18:26:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H3yGm-00011a-H6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:26:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H3yGl-0006oP-WA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:26:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H3yGa-0006ny-0S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:26:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H3yGX-0006nR-9q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:26:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H3yGX-0006nK-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:26:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.212] (helo=ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H3yGV-0005Kw-Th; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:26:32 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:64361 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H3yGT-0006Rp-4r; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:26:29 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0701-5, 2007-01-08), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1H3yGT-0006Rp-4r. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1H3yGT-0006Rp-4r 928b3bd5865c0ff2545a773366e2c6ef X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:64983 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I do not send bug report for the patched version, of course. (And I have >> tried to make it clear on download page on my site that you should use the >> unpatched version for bug reports.) > > The recommendation should *always* be to do M-x report-emacs-bug. > And make sure that the patched version changes report-emacs-bug-address and > report-emacs-bug-pretest-address to your own address. Yes, that is a good way to do it. Less to remember for the users. And then perhaps include some text that makes the situation clear. Something about "try the unpatched version bla bla ....". I will change this as soon as I get time.