Incoming from David Jardine: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 03:08:02PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > David Jardine wrote: > > > > >I've never had the courage to file a bug and wouldn't know where to > > >start, but I'm sure someone else on the list can explain. > > > > It is really easy to file a bug report. Just install reportbug > > Thanks for the explanation and encouragement, raju. I've disovered > that I did in fact install reportbug, but looking at the manpage I > realise that I'm way out of my depth here. When it comes to bugs
See /etc/reportbug.conf. There's lots of comments explaining things. Minus comments, mine is so: ----------------------------------- bts debian submit mua 'mutt -H' header "X-Silly-Header: I have edited my /etc/reportbug.conf" no-ldap query-bts cc config-files compress no-ldap mirror us mirror uk sign gpg email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" realname "s. keeling" editor 'emacs -nw' ----------------------------------- When you run reportbug (as a user, not as root), it'll walk you through the whole process. Prior to that, try to find out what Debian package it is that you're reporting a bug for (ie., "dpkg -S /some/relevant/file"); it'll ask for that. Then it'll query the bts for you, displaying extant bugs, and ask you if your problem is mentioned in them. If it's not already there, report it. reportbug will ask questions, open an editor to compose mail where you can supply relevant details, etc. That'll go out to the package's maintainer, who'll mail you for more details, an explanation of what's happening, or perhaps a solution. Kinda fun, really, and can be quite educational. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
