bugs and bug reports

[Alexander Gutfraind]

Hello fellow users!

I was just scanning the new packages and wondered:

How are bugs cathegorized, numbered and bug reports
submitted?
Most bug fixes are around bug #26600, does it mean that
26600 is the total number
of bugs discovered in all packages?
I this case, When did the count started?

I know that debian has a powerful system of bug reporting,
but for that one needs to find
the general location of the bug and reproduce it.
What tools does one have to locate the bug (system
bug/program bug/shell bug)?
can one monitor each program's access to files, memory, and
other resources?

TIA.sasha.

Re: bugs and bug reports

[Santiago Vila Doncel]

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Alexander Gutfraind wrote:

 How are bugs cathegorized, numbered and bug reports
 submitted?

See  http://www.debian.org/Bugs

 Most bug fixes are around bug #26600, does it mean that
 26600 is the total number
 of bugs discovered in all packages?

Yes, but many of them are already fixed and closed.

 I this case, When did the count started?

I don't know. I was not a developer at that time...