Retiring gccbug script?

[Daniel Berlin]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:38:32AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > > If you want attachments in gccbug-generated PRs, if we move to Bugzilla
> > > then add an attachment facility to the new gccbug script, but make sure
> > > that the resulting gcc-bugs/gcc-prs messages, whatever bug submission
> > > mechanism is used, include the attachments as proper MIME parts,
> > > text/whatever if small or compressed otherwise.
> > 
> > This is a good idea.  Since gccbug is a Bourne shell script,
> > do you know if there is a portable way to detect if a file
> > is plain text or not?  Is the output of the "file" command portable?
> 
> I'd recommend providing a helper executable that gccbug would use to 
> handle attaching files.

> 
> > The Debian bug reporting system allows people to CC:
> > <bug id>@bugs.debian.org when following up a bug report:
> > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
> > 
> > I think that is easier to understand than the current
> > system that the GCC GNATS system uses.  I wonder
> > if we could use that facility in any way in the future?
> 
> Bugzilla also uses magic in the Subject lines, though I also like the
> Debian system of per-bug email addresses.

I could add per-bug email addresses to bugzilla, if you like.
It's not that tricky.