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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: Test failure of ilmbase-2.2.0 on i686-linux (testBoxAlgo.cpp)
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 22:11:06 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 06:06:25PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Leo, and thanks for the perfect upstream bug report!
> 
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> 
> > [1]
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2015-11/msg00179.html
> 
> Small comment: bug-guix@gnu.org is linked to the bug tracker at
> <http://bugs.gnu.org/guix>.  It is best to refer to the bug by canonical
> URL, <http://bugs.gnu.org/22049> in this case, and to Cc:
> 22049@debbugs.gnu.org, so we keep track of the discussion.

D'oh! I made a note of this practice in the past but it slipped my mind.

> 
> I reckon this is probably not obvious to someone who hasn’t used
> bugs.gnu.org before; maybe we should fix our documentation?

It's a good idea, especially for new packagers like me. I suppose under
packaging there could be a brief description of how to write a good bug
report in general as well as Guix-specific things like how to reference
the bug. As well as a reminder to practice rubber-duck debugging before
sending the bug report ;)

> 
> Thanks again,
> Ludo’.