web/830: gnatsweb creates PRs with bogus version information

Gerald Pfeifer pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Sun Nov 19 06:41:00 GMT 2000


On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> Some PRs appear to be entering GNATS with the GCC version
> "unknown-1.0" listed - this seems to be the gnatsweb default version.
> This version information is useless; gnatsweb should refuse to accept
> PRs without a proper version.

Hacking cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl in our wwwdocs module would be a great
and self-contained task for a volunteer.

Contributions welcome!

> (Also, gnats.html should recommend gccbug as preferred for submitting
> bugs against snapshots/3.0, since gccbug now automatically includes
> the full version, host/build/target and configure options.

I will take care of this shortly.

> Similarly, bugs.html should make it clear that it is preferred for bug
> reports to go via GNATS rather than direct to gcc-bugs and that
> they're less likely to be forgotten about if they go to GNATS.)

We already have
  Our preferred way of receiving bugs is via our GNATS bug reporting
  system
at the top of that page, but I will also emphasize that later on.

Once I have made those updates to the web pages, I will set this PR to
analyzed or suspended. (In the future, please do not specify more than
one issue in one PR.)

Gerald
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