bug report

Bug Report Etiquette
From reportbug 0.10's changelog: * List outstanding bug reports on the package to help maintain sanity of developers; new option --no-bts-query (-b) added for offline use. (Closes: #40115) Here's an example session: quango2 ~> reportbug -S grave -s 'postinst is broken' xaw-wrappers 2>&1 | tee session Querying

How to report bug on a (buggy) bug report?
Sue Sims s...@opera.com opera linux On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 13:23:52 -0500, Rick Richardson <ri...@mn.rr.com> wrote: Is it a waste of time to file Opera bug reports? I filed the same bug report three times against various versions of Opera for Linux, and the bug remains. That isn't the preferred way of filing bug

How to report bugs?
Martien Verbruggen m...@tradingpost.com.au comp lang perl misc To the p5p and anyone connected with perl.com: I have now tried to submit this bug report from three independent email addresses to perl...@perl.com, only to be told in a bounce message that I am sending email from a 'spam haven'.

Proposal how to handle mass bug reports
Debian Bug Tracking System ow...@bugs.debian.org linux debian maint boot Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: # The os-prober problem is beta4 errata. clone 251536 -1 Bug#251536: Install report Bug 251536 cloned as bug 251638. reassign -1 tasksel Bug#251638: Install report Bug reassigned from package

Java bug report refused by Sun
faraway ty...@yi.org linux debian bugs dist Package: reportbug Version: 2.63 Severity: wishlist When you report a bug with a standard debian package, the bug report email gets sent to <package>@bugs.debian.org and a tracking number is assigned in the debian bug tracking system. Currently, when you report a bug to

Knowing when to submit bug report
That is, should I avoid posting bug reports, and just email Graham Nelson? You should always e-mail bug reports to the author of the program. Otherwise, they may not see the bug report. Whether you also post the bug report to a newsgroup is up to you. It probably isn't worth doing unless you think it would be of

How to submit bug reports? (Was: Timeout bug in tcl threads ...
Doug Harrison dHarri...@worldnet.att.net microsoft public vc online_help Don McFarland wrote: Hi, I've found a possible bug in MSVC++6, but I can find no related bug report when searching msdn on-line. And I'm sure I'm missing something on the MSDN website -- I can't find anything that looks like a bug report

How do I report a bug I've found?
Gabor Hojtsy ga...@hojtsy.hu php mirrors goba Sat Feb 8 10:18:10 2003 EDT Modified files: /php-bugs-web report.php Log: Better explanation on bug passwords. </a>] + You may enter any password here, which will be stored for this bug report. + This password allows you to come back and modify your submitted bug

Bug Report Submitted - Webdav Exploit (BAD NEWS)
It's even better to make sure if it's really Opera's bug. This newsgroups is suitable if you are not sure if it is a bug, or if you would like to announce the problem you've found, or if you think it is useful to get more information from other users on other systems before posting a bug report.

Bug#253386: xserver-xfree86: [ati/atimisc] xf86XVCopyYUV12ToPacked ...
If not, it's the experts job, and they'll mail a bug report to the kernel list. I've forgotten which versions shipped with which kernel, but there were a lot of cases of lost data reported. Many people just assumed that was the nature of Linux filesystems. There THey should have assumed it was in the nature of

bug-report
[The following is a form letter, written by Branden Robinson] Hello, You recently filed a duplicate bug report against a Debian package; that is, the problem had already been reported. While there is often nothing inherently wrong with doing so, the filing of duplicate reports can cause Debian package maintainers

6.05 irreproducible bug report #5
Tim addr...@in.sig opera wishlist On 19 May 2001 14:50:25 GMT, partiallycorrect.nos...@nozspammmy.operamail.com (Partially Correct) wrote: I know from month to month, I forget if I have filed a bug report on this or that. Often I just refile to make sure, if I think I haven't. Wouldn't it pay OS to auto send back a

Bug-report entered at Borland regarding TASM32's "forgetting ...
One of the unfortunate things with MS's lack of a bug report database and an official bug reporting methodology is that if one reports a bug here, no one may ever confirm it. That has happened to me in the past, even if many bug reports on these NGs are spotted and confirmed. Actually, there is an official bug

Bug-report entered at Borland regarding TASM32's "forgetting ...
Jonny Axelsson j...@opera.no opera general Be assured, if you have found a bug, filing a bug report is the best way to get our attention. If there is a feature you want, opera.wishlist has the greatest impact, though for some specific feature suggestions filing a bug report, and mark it as an enhancement,

Bug#261879: reportbug wish: ability to report bugs found in ...
I took the time to prepare and submit ten high-quality bug reports on RC2. These are genuine bugs that Microsoft ought to be interested in. I've done a lot of technical beta testing in the past, and I know how to write a high-quality bug report. Every one of my bug reports is being closed with the generic notation:

cvs: php-bugs-web / report.php
Alexandre Oliva ol...@dcc.unicamp.br gnu g++ bug --Multipart_Mon_Apr__7_19:32:17_1997-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi there! Thanks for your bug report. This problem should be fixed in the next major release of gcc (2.8.0). It should compile this code snippet successfully with the given compiler

Submitting Bug Reports [was: Re: Sun pulls MU's off website!!!!]
How do I report it? [...] Lastly, fill out a bug report form at the official ADOM website. [...] Please note that even nitpicky things like typographical errors are worthy of bug reporting. The bug report form at www.adom.de has a bug category "spelling problem". Although this isn't quite the same as "grammatical

Bug report duplication
I would add a few restrictions: 1) If you report a lintian detected bug, it is especially important to make sure that it is not already reported by the lintian mass bug reports. 2) To make the bug report more worthful than the lintian report, you are encouraged to submit additional information about the bug,

Bug #13137 Updated: CVS incompatible with autoconf 2.13 ...
Unless the user is familiar with the GNU Mailing lists and the fact that the bug reports got to thos lists, they may not even be aware that anyone outside of the FSF will see their report. After all the current message says explicitly that the report will be sent "to the FSF", and no hint is given that it's really

Futile bug reports?
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