On Fri, Feb 06, 2026 at 08:01:15AM +0300, Faith Nyakerario wrote:
> Hey all,

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> My name is Faith Uniter, a new Debian contributor. I recently started 
> learning how to report bugs using my terminal. I’m running into some 
> uncertainty that I’d appreciate guidance on.
> 
> In my case, 
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> Helping newbie developers 
> 
>  Helping newbie developers 
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>  
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> at https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/  but I’m not entirely sure how to 
> determine whether what I’m observing should be reported against a specific 
> package or treated as a more general issue.
> 
> Could someone please advise on:
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> How to reliably identify whether an issue should be reported against a 
> specific package versus a general bug?
> 
> 
> How a contributor can get a reported bug assigned to themselves for follow-up 
> and fixing?
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> 
> 
> Any pointers to documentation, best practices, or examples would be very 
> helpful.
> 
> Thank you for your time and for maintaining such a welcoming community.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Faith Uniter N.

Hi, Faith

I fear I don't understand your question. Perhaps I'm missing some context.

Could you try to describe what you want to do in other terms? Perhaps then,
someone could have an idea.

Cheers
-- 
tomás

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