Bug#876701: rc-alert: a patch for ~/.boring-bugs to ignore

[Adam Borowski]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 09:03:08PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:37:57AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> ...
> > Here's a patch that implements "~/.boring-bugs".  If such a file exists, all
> > lines starting with a bug number make rc-alert and tools that use it filter
> > out those bugs.
> 
> Interesting idea.  I thought it needs to update manpage rc-alert.1 too.
> Maybe for clarity, something like the following may be a good idea.

I did not include documentation in the first stab because 1. a RFC patch is
likely to be changed (like, an option to show all bugs anyway, a different
location of the file, etc), and 2. the documentation is quite trivial.

>   The valid bug number should be listed by itself or followed by a
>   whitespace.  All other contents in the "~/.boring-bugs" are treated as
>   the comment.

So the full paragraph would be something like:
.----
If the file $HOME/.boring-bugs exists, all bugs listed in it are ignored.
Bugs should be listed as numbers on a line by itself or followed by
whitespace and an optional comment.  All other lines are also treated as
comments.
`----

> > +    while (<BOR>)
> > +    {
> > +    	next unless /^(\d+)\s/;
> > +    	$boring{$1} = 1;
> > +    }
> > +    close BOR;


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