Re: Package version in bug reports

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 19:08, Olivier Guilyardi wrote: > Hi, > > Couldn't there be an input field at the top of the bug report form, > to invite people to enter which version of the package they use ? > Or if it is current CVS ? > > Most of the bug reports I see never mention that version. Of course > it usually is the latest, but it is hypothetic. When it gets hard > to reproduce the bug, I just sit there asking myself if the user > is using the latest or not. > > Of course, the best would be some tool that dumps the version of > all packages which the concerned package depends on (as Debian's > reportbug), but a simple field as explained above would be a good > start. > This has already been requested for (look at bug report http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=2925) - Helgi