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Re: [Patch] Remove gccbug from bugreport.texi
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:08:13AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ices.utexas.edu> writes:
>
> > and my
> > observation is that bugs sent in by gccbug are oftentimes missing
> > something (but instead still have the default values of fields in
> > them), so why not deprecate its use right away.
>
> Just an idea, maybe we can make gccbug print an URL that already fills
> in some fields (like version and architecture), and then let people
> choose to proceed with that or by mail? (I don't know how often
> missing architecture and version is actually a problem, though...)
Missing versions is what kills a lot of searching capabilities. We get
several libstdc++ PRs for package/version "unknown-1.0".
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