Re: [Eug-lug]Bug reporting in Debian

2002-12-05 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:20:21PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:39:06PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: reportbug? OpenBSD uses a command called 'sendbug', the manpage says it's Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Why on

Re: [Eug-lug]Bug reporting in Debian

2002-12-05 Thread Mark Bigler
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:39:06PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: reportbug? [snip] Anyway, if you haven't found it yet, did you try: $ man -k bug ? In Debian, man pages are part of the packages they go with. So, if you don't have the bug reporting tools installed, that

Re: [Eug-lug]Bug reporting in Debian

2002-12-05 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:03:52PM -0800, Mark Bigler wrote: In Debian, man pages are part of the packages they go with. So, if you don't have the bug reporting tools installed, that might not work. Oh yes, of course. In OpenBSD, bug reporting tools, and their manpages, are part of the base

Re: [Eug-lug]Bug reporting in Debian

2002-12-05 Thread Mark Bigler
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:03:52PM -0800, Mark Bigler wrote: In Debian, man pages are part of the packages they go with. So, if you don't have the bug reporting tools installed, that might not work. Oh yes, of course. In OpenBSD, bug reporting tools, and their

Re: [Eug-lug]Bug reporting in Debian

2002-12-05 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:35:35PM -0800, Mark Bigler wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:03:52PM -0800, Mark Bigler wrote: In Debian, man pages are part of the packages they go with. So, if you don't have the bug reporting tools installed, that might not work.

Re: [Eug-lug]Bug reporting in Debian

2002-12-05 Thread Mark Bigler
Jacob Meuser wrote: Sure, but I do 'man -k whatever' first, because if it's installed, then I don't care about installing it.  There may also be pointers from the output of 'man -k' ... from default this is part of so-and-so OS stuff. Quite so. My 1st post on this suggested 'apt-cache search

Re: [Eug-lug]Bug reporting in Debian

2002-12-04 Thread Rob Hudson
reportbug? I think I've used what you're talking about but reportbug doesn't sound familiar. -Rob On 20021204.1156, Dexter Graphic said ... What is the procedure for bug reporting in Debian? Seth told me once about a program that e-mails a report to the appropriate maintainer, but I don't

Re: [Eug-lug]Bug reporting in Debian

2002-12-04 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:39:06PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: reportbug? OpenBSD uses a command called 'sendbug', the manpage says it's Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Eug-lug]Bug reporting in Debian

2002-12-04 Thread Bob Miller
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:39:06PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: reportbug? OpenBSD uses a command called 'sendbug', the manpage says it's Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Why on earth does OpenBSD have a command to report bugs in Debian? -- Bob

Re: [Eug-lug]Bug reporting in Debian

2002-12-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:39:06PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: reportbug? I think I've used what you're talking about but reportbug doesn't sound familiar. There was once a tool called bug written in perl. Someone decided it sucked and wrote reportbug in python which is a far better program in