Re: bash 5.0 dies with HISTSIZE=0

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/22/19 9:49 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> writes:
> 
>>> I know. That's why several GNU projects use debbugs.gnu.org, which runs
>>> Debian's BTS software.
>>
>> Few people use that one, either. Most of the active bugs there are at least
>> a year old.
> 
> ???
> 
> There are very active projects, with new bugs every single day. I, for
> example, am subscribed to the Emacs bugs. There are much more open bug
> reports I'd like to see ...

I took an admittedly quick look at the open "serious" bugs, and of the 25
open ones, a quarter are over a year old (up to three years), and almost
80% are more than 100 days old. That doesn't say much about the day-to-day
churn, but there are a lot of old bugs there.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/