Re: And another deprecation joke

[dsmich]

---- David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote: 
> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Thu 08 Dec 2011 21:32, David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >>> So please keep up your (useful!) bug reports, but try to give them a
> >>> more positive flavor :)
> >>
> >> Could you give an example how to deliver with a positive flavor a report
> >> about deprecation messages talking about the wrong function, telling you
> >> in vague terms to use something instead for which no documentation is
> >> available, with both the state of documentation and message apparently
> >> being the same for years?
> >
> > Sure!  Here's one from about a week ago:
> >
> >   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.bugs/5953
> >
> > There are many more there.
> >
> > Using bug-guile also has the advantage that it's given an entry in
> > debbugs, so that we don't forget about it.
> 
> An application "bug-guile" is not available as a command line tool, or
> as a guile function in a standard installation of Guile on Ubuntu.
> 
> The Guile reference manual for the currently distributed version (1.8.8)
> has a long chapter "Reporting Bugs" that starts with
> 
>     Any problems with the installation should be reported to
>     <address@hidden>.
> 
> An application "guile-bug" is mentioned nowhere.

"address@hidden" is a mailing list, not an application.  You use your email 
application to send the bug report.

-Dale