annotate admin/notes/bugtracker @ 105864:c6d77597d0f2

* verilog-mode.el (verilog-getopt-file, verilog-set-define): Remove extra save-excursions and make-variable-buffer-local's. Suggested by Stefan Monnier. (verilog-getopt-file, verilog-module-inside-filename-p) (verilog-set-define): Merge GNU 1.35 and repair changes from switching to using with-current-buffer. (verilog-read-always-signals-recurse): Fix "a == 2'b00 ? b : c" being treated as a number and confusing AUTORESET. Reported by Dan Dever. (verilog-auto-ignore-concat, verilog-read-sub-decls-expr): Add verilog-auto-ignore-concat to fix backward compatibility with older verilog-modes. Reported by Dan Katz. (verilog-read-auto-template): Fix AUTO_TEMPLATEs with regexps containing closing anchors "...$". (verilog-read-decls): Fix AUTOREG not detecting "assign {a,b}". Reported by Wade Smith. (verilog-batch-execute-func) Comment on function usage. (verilog-label-re): Fix regular expression for labels. (verilog-label-re, verilog-calc-1): Support proper indent of named asserts. (verilog-backward-token, verilog-basic-complete-re) (verilog-beg-of-statement, verilog-indent-re): Support proper indent of the assert statement at the beginning of a block of text. (verilog-beg-block-re, verilog-ovm-begin-re): Support the `ovm_object_param_utils_begin and `ovm_component_param_utils_begin tokens as begins.
author Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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1 NOTES ON THE EMACS BUG TRACKER -*- outline -*-
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3 The Emacs Bug Tracker can be found at http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/
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7 ** How do I report a bug in Emacs now?
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8 The same way as you always did. Send mail to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org,
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34 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=37078)
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111 Package: emacs
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127 When you reply to a bug, respect the Reply-To address, ie send mail
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139 There are two ways to set the parameters of bugs in the database
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140 (tags, severity level, etc). When you report a new bug, you can
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143 Package: emacs
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144 Version: 23.0.60
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145 Severity: minor
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147 Optionally, add a sub-package, eg Package: emacs,calendar.
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148 This can include tags. Some things (e.g. submitter) don't seem to
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149 work here.
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150
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151 Otherwise, send mail to the control server, control@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com.
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152 At the start of the message body, supply the desired commands, one per
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153 line:
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155 command bug-number [arguments]
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156 ...
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157 quit|stop|thank|thanks|thankyou|thank you
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158
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159 The control server ignores anything after the last line above. So you
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160 can place control commands at the beginning of a reply to a bug
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161 report, and Bcc: the control server (note the commands have no effect
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162 if you just send them to the bug-report number). Bcc: is better than Cc:
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163 in case people use Reply-to-All in response.
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164
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165 Some useful control commands:
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166
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167 *** To reopen a closed bug:
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168 reopen 123
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169
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170 *** Bugs can be tagged in various ways (eg wontfix, patch, etc).
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171 The available tags are:
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172 patch wontfix moreinfo unreproducible fixed notabug
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173 Note that the list at http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/Developer#tags
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174 is incorrect, at least for Emacs.
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175 The list of tags can be prefixed with +, - or =, meaning to add (the
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176 default), remove, or reset the tags. E.g.:
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178 tags 123 + wontfix
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179
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180 *** To merge bugs:
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181 Eg when bad replies create a bunch of new bugs for the same report.
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182 Bugs must all be in the same state (e.g. same package(s) and severity
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184 tags (tags are merged). E.g.:
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185
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186 merge 123 124 125 ...
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188 Note that merging does not affect titles. In particular, a "retitle"
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189 of merged bugs only affects individual bugs, not all of them.
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190
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191 *** Forcing a merge:
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192 Like `merge', but bugs need not be in the same state. The packages
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195
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196 forcemerge 123 124 125 ...
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198 Note: you cannot merge with an archived bug - you must unarchive it first.
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199
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200 *** To unmerge bugs:
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201 To disconnect a bug from all bugs it is merged with:
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202
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203 unmerge 123
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204
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205 This command accepts only one bug number.
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206
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207 *** To clone bugs:
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208 Useful when one report refers to more than one bug.
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209
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210 clone 123 -1 [-2 ...]
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211 retitle -1 second bug
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212 retitle -2 third bug
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213
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214 The negative numbers provide a way to refer to the cloned bugs (which
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215 will be assigned proper numbers).
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216
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217 NB you cannot clone a merged bug. You'd think that trying to do so
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219
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220 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474742
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221
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222 You must unmerge, clone, then re-merge.
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223
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224 *** To set severity:
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225 severity 123 critical|grave|serious|important|normal|minor|wishlist
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227 See http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/Developer#severities for the meanings.
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229 *** To set the owner of a bug:
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230 owner 123 A Hacker <none@example.com>
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232 The shorthand `!' means your own address.
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234 *** To remove the owner of a bug:
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235 noowner 123
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236
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237 *** To mark a bug as fixed in a particular version:
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238 fixed 123 23.0.60
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240 *** To remove a "fixed" mark:
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241 notfixed 123 23.0.60
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242
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243 *** To assign or reassign a bug to a package or list of packages:
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244 reassign 1234 emacs,cc-mode
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245
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246 ** To remove spam from the tracker, move it to the `spam' pseudo-package:
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247 reassign 123 spam
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248
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249 ** To change the title of a bug:
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250 retitle 123 Some New Title
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251
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252 ** To change the submitter address:
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253 submitter 123 none@example.com
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255 Note that it does not seem to work to specify "Submitter:" in the
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256 pseudo-header when first reporting a bug.
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257
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258 ** How does archiving work?
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259 You can still send mail to a bug after it is closed. After 28 days with
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260 no activity, the bug is archived, at which point no more changes can
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261 be made. If you try to send mail to the bug after that (or merge with
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262 it), it will be rejected. To make any changes, you must unarchive it first:
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263
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264 unarchive 123
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266 The bug will be re-archived after the next 28 day period of no activity.
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267
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268 ** The web-page with the list of bugs is slow to load
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269
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270 It's a function of the number of displayed bugs. You can speed things
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271 up by only looking at the newest 100 bugs:
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272
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273 http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?newest=100;package=emacs
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274
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275 The above page is accessible from the "Options" section at the end of
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276 the "main list of bugs" page. Select bugs "in package" = emacs;
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277 "newest bugs" = 100. (I have no idea how you get to that Options
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279
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280 ** Mails to the bug tracker disappear
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281
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282 Apparently it has some kind of spam filter that sometimes silently
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283 discards valid mails. Adding a subject (pointless in control messages)
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284 may help.
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285
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286 ** ChangeLog issues
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288 *** When you fix a bug, it can be helpful to put the bug number in the
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289 ChangeLog entry, for example:
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291 * foo.el (foofunc): Fix the `foo' case. (Bug#123)
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292
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293 Then the relevant bug can be found for easy reference. If it's an
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294 obvious fix (e.g. a typo), there's no need to clutter the log with the
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295 bug number.
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296
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297 Similarly, when you close a bug, it can be helpful to include the
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298 relevant ChangeLog entry in the message to the bug tracker, so people
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299 can see eaxctly what the fix was.
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300
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301 *** bug-reference-mode
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302
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303 Activate `bug-reference-mode' in ChangeLogs to get clickable links to
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304 the bug web-pages.
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305
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306 ** Gnus-specific voodoo
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307
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308 *** Put point on a bug-number and try: M-x gnus-read-ephemeral-emacs-bug-group
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309
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310 *** If the above is not available:
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311 (add-hook 'gnus-article-mode-hook
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312 (lambda ()
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313 (setq bug-reference-url-format
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314 "http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%s")
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315 (bug-reference-mode 1)))
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316
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317 and you can click on the bug number in the subject header.