On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:59:52PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 2009 January 09 21:15:31 Paul Cartwright wrote: > >On Fri January 9 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> I usually search/browse b.d.o looking for > >> my bug. If I find it I just add more information by email. If I am > >> unable to find it, I'll then use reportbug and generally tell reportbug > >> that "None of these are my bug" or somesuch. Browsing existing bugs > >> also helps you identify the unique information about your situation that > >> is worth mentioning in the bug. > > > >it was a little frustrating trying to browse.. I didn't quite get the hang > > of looking in one bug,then I CTRL-D, ran reportbug again, tried another > > bug.. time consuming and not fun... > > That's not how I do it. I just use the bug numbers from the list and go > directly to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=bug_number_here > in a browser window not invoked by/controlled by/related to reportbug. > Actually, there's less typing than that, because I use konqueror which has a > dbug:bug_number_here shortcut.
Other useful shortcuts: http://bugs.debian.org/NNNNNN . e.g.: http://bugs.debian.org/123456 http://bugs.debian.org/PACKAGE . e.g. http://bugs.debian.org/wodim > > Still, I have no doubt reportbug could be improved. http://packages.debian.org/reportbug-ng -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
