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Ontology of bug reporters

Benjamin Drieu

If you are involved in the development or in the packaging of a program, sooner or later you'll get bug reports. Every bug report is unique, but most of them fall into one category. Based on my Debian or upstream experience, here are the most common families of bug submitters I had to deal with.

[from Joey]

posted Mon 18 Oct 2004 in /software/bugs | link

Bug du jour

Debian #222868:

From: Matteo De Luigi
Subject: aspell: Description says "suggestioning". It should be "suggesting"
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:05:57 +0100

Package: aspell
Version: 0.50.4.1-1
Severity: normal

I mean, who would want to use a spell checker whose description contains such an obvious spelling error? :)

posted Thu 12 Feb 2004 in /software/bugs | link

Bug du jour 

        if ((xal->name = malloc(name_len) + 1) == NULL)
                out_of_memory("allocating xattrs");

My bug. C sucks. Valgrind is an automatic barrel-fish-shooter.

posted Tue 24 Jun 2003 in /software/bugs | link

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