Re: Rant about stupid bug reporters who can't be bothered to check for identical bugs before reporting their "new" one (Re: Bug#55602: gnu-standards: version 2.13-17 still has package overlap)
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 11:04:05PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I am being deluged with bug reports about it because bug
> submitters are too lazy to check for duplicate bugs. I have now
> received seven copies of this bug report in the last 10 days.
>
> <RANT>
> *Always* check for duplicate bugs before submitting a new bug
The bug web pages are not absolutely up to date with the actual
database. Your submitters may well have viewed the bug system on
the web and not seen the report.
FWIW, I do find it irritating when I get the same bug reported
multiple times, but I don't think it's unreasonable. It's not a big
deal for the maintainer to clean it up. (But then I don't maintain
any super c00l packages.)
Hamish
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