Subject: Re: Porting and the bug reporting system

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 96 13:08 BST

Martin Schulze writes ("Re: Porting and the bug reporting system"):
...
> But as Michael said, the bugtracking system has a long backlock.  Your
> bugs won't reach the maintainer until Ian has repaired it.

The bug tracking system is now working fine, and answering mail almost
immediately.

The only thing still waiting to be resolved is that the WWW logs are
still rather out of date, but this will be fixed when www.debian.org
(= debian.microworld.net) catches up with mirroring master.  The logs
on www.cl.cam.ac.uk are stalled waiting for effort from the mail admin
here.

When all the mirrors are up to date you'll be able to find the WWW bug
logs in the WebPages subdirectory - they're already fine on master.
In the meantime you could try using
 <URL:ftp://master.debian.org/pub/Linux/debian/Bugs/index.html>
 <URL:ftp://master.debian.org/pub/Linux/debian/Bugs/db/index.html>
(FTP doesn't do quite the right thing with directories - it fails to
use index.html).

master's ftpd appears to be shut off at the moment.

>   No
> maintainer would read all your tons of bugreports that were sent to
> debian-devel, 

If the bug report has a correct Package line and the Maintainers file
on the FTP site has the right address in it the maintainer will get a
copy of the bug report sent to them directly.

These bugs should have been sent to [email-masked], to stop
them from flooding debian-devel, but otherwise reporting them as bugs
is OK.

They should have been submitted with appropriate Subject lines.

I'd be grateful if someone - the original submitter, perhaps - would
use the `retitle' command at [email-masked] to give them all
meaningful Subjects.

I do hope we don't have anyone around here who gets upset just because
someone files a bug against their package, provided that the bug
report isn't daft.  We should be encouraging feedback.

Ian.