report-emacs-bug vs. <package>-submit-bug confusion (was: bug#78823: [BUG] 31.0.50; org-babel-execute-src-block: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, nil)

[Ihor Radchenko]

[moving to emacs-devel]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
>> Cc: mail@antr.me, 78823@debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 06:42:57 +0000
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > I've seen that, but TBH I don't understand the purpose of this
>> > duplicate reporting.
>> 
>> I suspect that it is the usual confusion on where to send bug reports -
>> to Org ML or to Emacs bugs. This time, Antero played it safe and did
>> both, which is understandable.
>
> What can we do to avoid such confusion?

For example, M-x report-emacs-bug may add an extra prompt asking whether
user really wants to report a core Emacs bug and not Org mode/Tramp/C
mode/AucTeX/etc. If not, it can instead query which package and
automatically call appropriate package-specific bug reporting command.

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