Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Maintainer addresses

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2007-02-04) writes:
>
>>> Okay, that proposal does not seem to be too popular.  How about
>>> adding something like the above sentence in capital letters to the
>>> start of the blurb inserted into the mail buffer by
>>> `TeX-submit-bug-report' then?
>>
>> How about the following: we (upstream) put in a blurb recommending to
>> check out the newest release version and date from our website to make
>> sure that the report is not for too old a version.
>
> Unless `TeX-submit-bug-report' actually establishes a connection
> with our web site for checking which version and date is current,
> this does not seem to make much sense.  At least not for our own
> distribution.

I don't see why not.  I was not proposing putting the current versions
into the report, but rather the web site address where the user could
check himself.

>> We also check (in the case of an XEmacs package) the author version
>> and mention it prominently in the report so that people actually
>> have a chance to see what version they carry.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "author version".  If you mean the
> installed version, its version number and date are already included
> in the report.  The version number even is in the title.

It just happens to be the downstream version number and date.  Unless
this has been fixed by now.

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