Re: Using reportbug

2014-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 29 March 2014 19:15:42 Frank Stachyra wrote: > 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. What are you typing? Are you typing (sorry, I shall have to use

Re: Using reportbug

2014-03-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 29 mar 14, 20:04:45, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:15:42 -0500 > Frank Stachyra wrote: > > > > 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. > > > Yes, it could be

Re: Using reportbug

2014-03-29 Thread Brian
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 report

Re: Using reportbug

2014-03-29 Thread Martin Read
On 29/03/14 19:15, Frank Stachyra wrote: 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. reportbug will be invoking whatever your default text editor is. If the VISUAL or EDITOR enviro

Re: Using reportbug

2014-03-29 Thread Joe
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 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. > > Maybe debian maintainers do not want bug reports from beginners, That is to some extent