Re: [patches] [bug] when /etc/hosts doesn't exist, apt fails to resolve hostnames using libc6 2.10.1

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:21:25PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 01:14:28PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > On 05.08.2009 14:35, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> >> I found strange finding such a bug report without more analysis on this
> >> mailing list. Debian is listed here but we just get told about the bug a
> >> couple of hours before.
> >
> > Posting on this mailing list was suggested by Daniel Jacobowitz, there 
> > doesn't seem to be a general eglibc mailing list, and account creation 
> > for the bug tracker is disabled.  Debian is listed here, because I am 
> > aware that you were preparing packages for upload to experimental.
> >
> 
> It seems that people usually uses issues@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 

Note that my main comment is actually not on the location of the bug
report but the content. In my opinion the work of a distribution is not
to forward bug reports verbosely, but to do a first triage and analysis
about the problem. 

That said I probably leave in an ideal world...

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