Ticket History #5566: krb5-send-pr is difficult to use and largely unnecessary

# Tue May 29 14:37:48 2007 Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU> - Ticket created

From:	Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Subject:	Web page recommends send-pr, but it kind of sucks
Date:	Mon, 28 May 2007 23:53:23 -0400
To:	krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU

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I started to file a doc bug today, however, it turns out it is
already fixed in 1.6.1. Congratulations.

However, your web page strongly recommends using send-pr, but send-pr
isn't included with most distributions and didn't work when i tried
to build it from source (it failed trying to read /usr/local/share/
gnats/mit). This consumed a frustrating amount of time. Also, looking
at your archives, you aren't using the script internally. If you want
nicely formatted bug reports, I recommend a webform.

Regards,
Richard

# Tue Dec 31 14:12:03 2013 ghudson@mit.edu (Greg Hudson) - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

# Tue Dec 31 14:12:03 2013 ghudson@mit.edu (Greg Hudson) - Comments added

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krb5-send-pr is difficult to use and largely unnecessary

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I'm not sure what web page this report refers to (and Richard probably
doesn't remember after six years). If there is a page recommending send-
pr or krb5-send-pr, it should be changed to recommend sending mail to
krb5-bugs@mit.edu.

In a similar vein, krb5-send-pr should probably just print out a message
saying to send mail to krb5-bugs@mit.edu, and maybe suggesting some of
the kinds of things to include in the report. We could remove it a few
releases after changing it that way.

I've changed the ticket subject accordingly.

# Tue Dec 31 14:19:02 2013 ghudson@mit.edu (Greg Hudson) - Comments added

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Here are some krb5-send-pr references which should get tidied up with
this change:

* The top-level README file (probably what the original bug report is
referencing, since this gets copied to the release web pages).

* The man page installed from util/send-pr. Probably we should just
remove this.

* src/plugins/kdb/db2/libdb2/README

# Tue Dec 31 14:32:30 2013 ghudson@mit.edu (Greg Hudson) - Subject changed from 'Web page recommends send-pr, but it kind of sucks' to 'krb5-send-pr is difficult to use and largely unnecessary'

# Wed Jan 01 14:17:48 2014 Richard Basch <basch@alum.mit.edu> - Comments added

Date:	Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:17:37 -0500
From:	Richard Basch <basch@alum.mit.edu>
Subject:	RE: [krbdev.mit.edu #5566] krb5-send-pr is difficult to use and largely unnecessary
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I don't remember the original report, but in the 1.12 release notes, here is
an excerpt referring to krb5-send-pr:

Reporting Bugs
--------------

Please report any problems/bugs/comments using the krb5-send-pr
program. The krb5-send-pr program will be installed in the sbin
directory once you have successfully compiled and installed Kerberos
V5 (or if you have installed one of our binary distributions).

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Subject: [krbdev.mit.edu #5566] krb5-send-pr is difficult to use and largely
unnecessary

I'm not sure what web page this report refers to (and Richard probably
doesn't remember after six years). If there is a page recommending send-
pr or krb5-send-pr, it should be changed to recommend sending mail to
krb5-bugs@mit.edu.

In a similar vein, krb5-send-pr should probably just print out a message
saying to send mail to krb5-bugs@mit.edu, and maybe suggesting some of
the kinds of things to include in the report. We could remove it a few
releases after changing it that way.

I've changed the ticket subject accordingly.

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# Wed Jan 15 14:54:42 2014 tlyu (Taylor Yu) - Given to tlyu (Taylor Yu)

# Wed Jan 15 14:54:42 2014 tlyu (Taylor Yu) - Target_Version 1.12.1 added

# Wed Jan 15 14:54:42 2014 tlyu (Taylor Yu) - Status changed from 'open' to 'review'

# Wed Jan 15 14:54:42 2014 tlyu (Taylor Yu) - Tags pullup added

# Wed Jan 15 14:54:42 2014 tlyu (Taylor Yu) - Correspondence added

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Remove mentions of krb5-send-pr

Start the process of deprecating krb5-send-pr. In practice, it causes
frustration for some users, and free-form email is good enough for
most bug reports.

Continue to install krb5-send-pr for now, but plan to remove it from
the tree in the future, probably replaced by a script that instructs
the user to send email manually.

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e972ce069dd45aad74e4f4853570ab27cfea05c2
Author: Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
Commit: e972ce069dd45aad74e4f4853570ab27cfea05c2
Branch: master
README | 12 ++++--------
src/plugins/kdb/db2/libdb2/README | 3 +--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

# Wed Jan 15 16:30:48 2014 tlyu (Taylor Yu) - Status changed from 'review' to 'resolved'

# Wed Jan 15 16:30:48 2014 tlyu (Taylor Yu) - Version_Fixed 1.12.1 added

# Wed Jan 15 16:30:48 2014 tlyu (Taylor Yu) - Correspondence added

From:	tlyu@mit.edu
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Remove mentions of krb5-send-pr

Start the process of deprecating krb5-send-pr. In practice, it causes
frustration for some users, and free-form email is good enough for
most bug reports.

Continue to install krb5-send-pr for now, but plan to remove it from
the tree in the future, probably replaced by a script that instructs
the user to send email manually.

(cherry picked from commit e972ce069dd45aad74e4f4853570ab27cfea05c2)

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/708b45ff1d3fbcce86b68e854db28ce516c12244
Author: Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
Commit: 708b45ff1d3fbcce86b68e854db28ce516c12244
Branch: krb5-1.12
README | 12 ++++--------
src/plugins/kdb/db2/libdb2/README | 3 +--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

# Wed Dec 16 18:02:50 2015 tlyu (Taylor Yu) - CustomField pullup deleted