more bug economics (was: bug#7648: ylwrap appears not to support bison's lalr1.cc skeleton)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

[ moving from bug-automake to automake ]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 02:29:24PM CET:
> had already been reported in PR automake/491 (dating back to 2006!):
>  <http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=automake&pr=491>
> 
> Another good reason to fix the bug before the next release, I'd say.

For what little it's worth, here's another bug economics rule:

Regressions, at least recent ones, are (almost) infinitely more
important than ordinary bugs: you can fix all bugs you like, if
your package has significant regressions then distributions won't
move to it (and users will have to live with the bugs in the old
code).  Old regressions are less critical.  With ordinary bugs,
age is less clear an indicator of priority; there, the number of
potentially affected users matters more.

> I still plan to (try to) do so myself, even if not right away (but
> hopefully, soonish enough).

Of course, bug fixes are still nice, so be my guest!

Cheers,
Ralf