Hi, Ian Molton wrote: > Perhaps someone can help me with the bug tracker?
If i have to submit a bug, then i use the e-mail way. See: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting "Sending the bug report via e-mail" (about 30 lines down the page) "An Example Bug Report" (another 30 lines down the page) The first three lines of the example are real mail headers for your mail client. The others lines are mail body text. -------------------------------------------------------------------- In particular i'd do for submitting a bug about xorriso: - Compose a mail for [email protected] - Begin the mail body text by Package: xorriso Maybe after having searched the package name by apt-file search ...program.name... - Next comes the package version header with the version string Version: 1.5.4-4 The internet proposes a tangible command line for this: dpkg -s xorriso | grep '^Version' - After an empty line comes the bug description text. A checklist for information to be included is at https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting under "Please include in your report:" Usually you can provide only a part of this list. Just leave out what would stop you from submitting the bug report. - Read what you wrote and check whether it would be understandable for somebody who does not know more about your situation than you wrote in the mail body. (You may of course assume that the reader is an expert with the package in question.) - Send the mail (as said, to [email protected]) - Wait for the acknowledgement mail which will tell you the bug number. Since i am upstream of xorriso i never submitted a Debian bug for it. Here is the acknowledgement for one of my earliest bug reports: Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:03:05 +0000 From: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: Thomas Schmitt <[email protected]> Subject: Bug#794868: Acknowledgement (dvd+rw-tools: Burn failure of growisofs on DVD-R[W] with write type DAO) - Subscribe to your new bug report (which is behaving like a little mailing list). Send a mail with arbitrary subject and body text to the bug number's subscribe address [email protected] Or go to the bug report page https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794868 and click the "subscribe" link about 10 lines down from the page top. - If you get replies, send answers to the bug report's own mail address: [email protected] It might be a good idea to Cc: the mail address from where the answer came. Just in case it is not subscribed to the bug report. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Have a nice day :) Thomas
