[Reportbug-maint] [Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#732934: mailman: On upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy install fails because /var/lock/mailman does not exist.

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello,
can you please give me a bit more context here?

>> Sorry. I am filing my first report. I am not a "maintainer" so I skipped
>> that bit.
>
> I think the idea is that your report starts with “Dear Maintainer”,
> literlally, followed by the fields you fill out. But yes, I also
> found this “Dear Maintainer” weird. Do we really need it (@ reportbug
> maintainers)?

The whole template is like this:

"""Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

*** End of the template - remove these lines ***"""

and while sometimes I see the template lines (those with ***) being
left in the report, it's the first time I heard the "Dear Maintainer"
line creates any confusion. That was added as a greeting to the
maintainer.

Regards,

-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi