Bug 675144

Summary:	Explain clearly that people should not file bug reports when eapply_user fails
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	fturco
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-01-10 20:31:09 UTC

I am seeing more frequent bug reports coming in about failing external patches. Perhaps it would be useful to display a suggestion to please not file bug reports about those failures. Perhaps using capitals in bold colour. Not that anyone ever reads emerge output until after they have filed the bug report in outrage, but then we can only hope it saves everyone a little time for a little invested time anyway.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-01-10 20:34:10 UTC

Some recent examples (I will not link them in See Also): #675136 #674114 #655218

Comment 2 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2019-01-10 20:49:43 UTC

> Some recent examples (I will not link them in See Also): #675136 #674114 #655218

If you type the word "bug" before each number, bugzilla will hyperlink them automatically without spamming the related bugs.

bug 675136 bug 674114 bug 655218

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-01-10 21:16:04 UTC

(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #2)
> > Some recent examples (I will not link them in See Also): #675136 #674114 #655218
> 
> If you type the word "bug" before each number, bugzilla will hyperlink them
> automatically without spamming the related bugs.

Thanks, byt why do you tell me this exactly? It's not like I haven't been here for fifteen years. And bugzilla has never improved much over that time. Why I don't type "bug" before each bug number every single time is because I do not want to be bugzilla's monkey. But all this is entirely beside the point of this bug report.

Comment 4 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2019-01-10 21:54:39 UTC

I was just offering some helpful advice. Who jammed that stick up your ass?

Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-01-11 19:48:48 UTC

(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #4)
> I was just offering some helpful advice.

And I thanked you for it.

> Who jammed that stick up your ass?

I beg your pardon?