On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 08:28:48PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > 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. >
There is also a package, reportbug I think it is appropriately named, that will greatly simplify the process of filing a bug in debian. -- Znoteer [email protected] --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
