Useful bug reports

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From: Richard Stallman
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1992 12:51

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A user just sent me the following to explain why he didn't put enough
information in a bug report:

      Sorry I presumed that perhaps
    someone else had already had run into it and solved it.

This is exactly the opposite of what is needed for a useful bug report.

A bug report has a chance to be useful when the bug is *not* known.
To make it a useful report, you must act on the assumption
that it is not known.

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