I totally second Alf in this regard. There were times you could report a bug by mail (to Debian e.g.) and it worked perfectly (for me, the reporter).
Once I went into the maze of bug reporting software and I almost didn't find back to the problem I tried to fix while stumbling upon the to-be-reported bug. My assumption is, that there's a reason why bug reporting software is so pain-inducing. It's to make people enjoying fixing bugs, because it might be easier compared to reporting them :D Cheers! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list