On Sat 29 Mar 2014 at 14:15:42 -0500, Frank Stachyra wrote: > The HOWTO at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting suggests asking questions > here that are not resolved by reportbug's interactive prompts.
Yep. Which interactive prompt concerns you? > Maybe debian maintainers do not want bug reports from beginners, and > deliberately makes using reportbug quite impossible to someone who > does not already know how to use it. Quite a claim! You too could learn how to use it; man page, trial and error etc. etc. > Assuming otherwise: as a beginner, I have no problem using reportbug, > through its interactive prompts, until I have completed all of them. We are halfway through your mail and find out you are very comfortable with using reportbug. > Then, reportbug offers not the remotest clue what to do next, to > actually send the report. The result is that I have a fully completed > bug report, with no apparent way to cause it to go to anybody who > should get it. Ah, you want to send the report. Have you read the man page? > There is no prompt to complete and send the file, which appears to be > written to /tmp. The apparent list of commands at the bottom of the > page (e.g., ^G for Get Help, ^X for Exit, ^etc, etc) produce no result > when typed in, except that they appear as text. There is no apparent > way to enter anything but text; i.e., no way to enter a command that > might send the report on its way. No, you haven't read the man page. > Surely there is a way to do this that might be made more readily > apparent to anybody who has never used reportbug, and is not adept at > using linux terminals It is a requirement that everyone has to be adept at using the terminal. 'Readily apparent' is a function of reading the documentation and the debian-user list archives. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140329203349.ge3...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
