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

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 09:32:32PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> 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.
...
> 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.
...
> 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.
> `----

Please go ahead.  If I were to ask more, please make test script in
test/test_rc-alert_online and add it to the online-test: target of
test/Makefile.  Then we can track its usefulness.

Regards,

Osamu