On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 10:05:05AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > 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.
You people are just unbelievably kind to take the trouble with people like me. I really appreciate it. Okay, bugs, here I come... -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
