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Subject: send-pr categories should be explained somewhere
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>Number:         2897
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       send-pr categories should be explained somewhere
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    steve
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar  6 09:50:01 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Wed Dec 29 15:14:05 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:  Wed Dec 29 15:16:24 PST 1999
>Originator:     Gareth McCaughan
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-970215-GAMMA i386
>Organization:
very little
>Environment:

	(not really relevant)

>Description:

	It would be nice if there were some official documentation of
	the available send-pr categories. By and large it's reasonably
	clear what they are for, but an official statement would be
	good, and would clear up those borderline cases where it's
	genuinely not clear what category to use. (Example: a day or
	two ago I reported that /stand/sysinstall has some wrong
	URLs hard-coded into it. Should this have been "bin" (it's
	a program), "conf" (it's a configuration error), or "misc"?)

	Actually, I'm not at all sure what "conf" means. Specifically,
	I don't know whether it means "problem with the way something
	is configured", or "problem with something used for configuration"?
	Or perhaps neither of these?

	Possibly the Right Thing to do is to modify send-pr so that
	it can take some sort of brief explanations in its category
	list and present them to the user, in which case this isn't
	a FreeBSD problem.

	Anyway, one way or another I think the purposes of the available
	categories should be documented.

>How-To-Repeat:

	% send-pr

>Fix:
	
	I'm not sure. Perhaps an entry in the Handbook.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->mpp 
Responsible-Changed-By: mpp 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Mar 6 16:34:50 PST 1997 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'll figure out something to do with htis. 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: mpp->steve 
Responsible-Changed-By: steve 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Aug 16 16:36:12 PDT 1997 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'll take this one. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: steve 
State-Changed-When: Wed Dec 29 15:14:05 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed in revisions 1.9 and 1.7.2.1 of src/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr/send-pr.1. 
>Unformatted:
