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 The only thing still waiting to be resolved is that the WWW logs are still rather out of date, but this will be fixed when www.debian.org (= debian.microworld.net) catches up with mirroring master.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 PROTECTED], 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 PROTECTED] 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.