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Debian's Bug Tracking System

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Copyright ©1997 Ian Jackson and Christian Schwarz.

This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

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Contents

• 1 About this manual
• 2 Reporting a bug
  • 2.1 The procedure
  • 2.2 The contents of a bug report
  • 2.3 An example
  • 2.4 Using dpkg to find the package and version for the report
  • 2.5 Minor bugs
  • 2.6 Sending a copy of your report to other addresses
  • 2.7 Unknown packages or bugs with no Package key
• 3 Getting information about bugs
  • 3.1 The mail interface
  • 3.2 Summary postings
• 4 Handling of bug reports
  • 4.1 Followup messages
  • 4.2 Recording that you have passed on a bug report
  • 4.3 Closing bug reports
  • 4.4 Reopening, reassigning and manipulating bugs
• 5 The mail control interface
  • 5.1 How it works
  • 5.2 Summary of available options
• 6 Additional features of the Bug Tracking System
  • 6.1 More-or-less obsolete subject-scanning feature
  • 6.2 Future plans
  • 6.3 Obsolete `X-Debian-PR: quiet' feature

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