On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 03:12:49PM -0800, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote:
> I also imagine you are paying the debian volunteers for their time to
> help you with a bug you are hitting. You are joining a community, and
> it would be great to respect the rules and processes that community
> follows. Seriously, this is a volunteer effort people are involved in.
> 
> FWIW, reportbug is *NOT* monitoring your system. It is just populating
> your bug report with almost everything the maintainer would ask you up
> first. Such as, are you on the latest package? Can you test with the
> latest package? Has your bug already been reported? If so, can we add
> to that report? Are you running the originally shipped package or
> doing something custom?

Yes the debian bug reporting is a script collecting info.  It can send it
directly as an email, if email sending is configured on your system, or it
can save it as a file you can send from an email client by yourself, and
of course being a text file you can read what it in it before sending it.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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