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[www-patch] bugs/management.html: document new keyword "meta-bug"


The following patch adds a paragraph for the new keyword "meta-bug" to
the "Procedures and Policies" section of bugs/management.html.

Validated as XHTML 1.0.
Ok to commit?

Regards,
Volker

Index: management.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/bugs/management.html,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -p -r1.18 management.html
--- management.html	5 Oct 2003 12:54:35 -0000	1.18
+++ management.html	13 Oct 2003 23:37:53 -0000
@@ -207,6 +207,14 @@ severity "<strong>critical</strong>" to 
 be downgraded later if a defect is not important enough to justify
 "critical" severity.</p>
 
+<p><strong>Meta-bugs (reports with the keyword "meta-bug")</strong> are
+used to group PR's that have a common denominator.  Meta-bugs do not have
+own testcases, but provide links to regular PR's via Bugzilla's "depends
+on/blocks" mechanism instead (a link to a regular PR is added via
+"depends on <em>PR-number</em>" on the Bugzilla page of the meta-bug).
+Information concerning the majority of bugs that a meta-bug depends on
+should be added to the meta-bug instead of each single PR.</p>
+
 <p><strong>Bugs with keyword "ice-on-invalid-code"</strong>, where GCC
 emits a sensible error message before issuing an ICE (the ICE will be
 replaced by the message "confused by earlier errors, bailing out" in
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