From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Diff emails to debbugs? Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:29:30 +0900 Message-ID: <87k3s0om8l.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87ip7m5qgp.fsf@gnus.org> <8gtxr6f0em.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356798585 21696 80.91.229.3 (29 Dec 2012 16:29:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:29:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 29 17:30:01 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TozIP-0005Vk-5L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:30:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55325 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TozIA-0000sv-GS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:29:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54289) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TozI9-0000sq-0d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:29:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TozI8-0001C9-0u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:29:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:34706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TozI7-00016r-Mw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:29:43 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A55B9708DE; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:29:31 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 03B8B1A27B1; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:29:30 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155993 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > >> So perhaps it would be nice if it Cc'd the debbugs address, so the bug > >> submitter could easily see what the resulting diff is? > > Or even if it could close the bug. > > Closing the bug wouldn't be a good idea: I regularly install patches > which fix part of a bug but not all of it. Somewhat off-topic because it couldn't be done automatically: what I do with partial fixes is to close the original bug, and mark it superseded by a new bug the describes the reduced scope concisely. Dunno if anybody else thinks it helps, but it does help me personally.