From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TODO item: obsolete bug-reporting commands Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:04:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y7962obp.fsf@rabkins.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204261528 25091 80.91.229.12 (29 Feb 2008 05:05:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:05:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Yoni Rabkin , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 29 06:05:54 2008 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 1JUxQu-0005gT-AH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:05:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUxQN-0000Ez-1H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:04:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUxQJ-0000E2-F0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:04:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUxQI-0000DI-Pv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:04:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUxQI-0000DF-LL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:04:42 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUxQE-0006Su-PG; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:04:38 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FANMgx0dMCpz5Wmdsb2JhbACQZwEgnGKBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,424,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="15381652" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 29 Feb 2008 00:04:38 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.156.249]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id JHH37238; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:04:38 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id ED8577FA7; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:04:37 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:24:35 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:90831 Archived-At: >> The TODO file says: "Check for any included packages that define >> obsolete bug-reporting commands. Change them to use report-emacs-bug." > I think I added that. All I had in mind was, some packages (eg > supercite.el) still directed bug reports to somewhere else, even > though they had not been developed outside of Emacs for a long time. > It's good to find those and update them to send bug reports to the > normal Emacs address. Yes, that's desirable. > Or perhaps this policy will change if and when a bug database comes > into use. So the short answer is that it's probably best to wait and > see what happens with the current debbugs experiment before doing much > about this. Indeed, we may want to revisit this in the future, but in any case, it's useful to redirect report to the normal Emacs address if the claimed maintainer is not the maintainer any more: for those problems, we don't have any reason to wait. Stefan