Re: tutorial to use the BTS ?



On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:57:30PM +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to notify a package maintainer that a new version of the
> software he packaged is out.
> I told me not to directly contact him, but to use the "BTS".
> Ok.
>
> - What is that?
> - Need to register?
> - Where?
> - What, in a few lines, are the rules in there? (please dont give me the
> link of a hundred lines document)

When looking for help don't set rules to those that give it to you,
just be happy that help is given without being billed for it

apt-cache search BTS
debbugs - The bug tracking system based on the active Debian BTS
debian-el - Emacs helpers specific to Debian users
devscripts - Scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
dpkg-dev-el - Emacs helpers specific to Debian development
flyspray - lightweight Bug Tracking System (BTS) in PHP
gcc-snapshot - A SNAPSHOT of the GNU Compiler Collection
libtse3-0.3.1c2a - portable MIDI sequencer engine in C++ - development files
libtse3-dev - portable MIDI sequencer engine in C++ - development files
nbtscan - A program for scanning networks for NetBIOS name information
reportbug - reports bugs in the Debian distribution
****:~$ apt-cache show reportbug
Package: reportbug
Priority: standard
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 372
Maintainer: Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Architecture: all
Version: 3.18
Depends: python2.3
Recommends: python2.3-cjkcodecs | python2.3-iconvcodec
Suggests: postfix | exim4 | mail-transport-agent, gnupg | pgp, debconf-utils (>> 1.1.0), debsums, file (>> 1.30), dlocate
Filename: pool/main/r/reportbug/reportbug_3.18_all.deb
Size: 127610
MD5sum: 58588256cff916c2896191db06bcd057
Description: reports bugs in the Debian distribution
reportbug is a tool designed to make the reporting of bugs in Debian
and derived distributions relatively painless. Its features include:
.
* Integration with the mutt, af, and mh/nmh mail readers.
* Access to outstanding bug reports to make it easier to identify
whether problems have already been reported.
* Automatic checking for newer versions of packages.
* Optional automatic verification of integrity of packages via debsums.
* Support for following-up on outstanding reports.
* Optional PGP/GnuPG integration.
.
reportbug is designed to be used on systems with an installed mail
transport agent, like exim or sendmail; however, you can edit the
configuration file and send reports using any available mail server.
.
This package also includes the "querybts" script for browsing the
Debian bug tracking system.
.
If your system's users use locales with character sets other than
UTF-8 and ISO-8859-*, one of either python2.3-cjkcodecs or
python2.3-iconvcodec is required for proper operation. For Asian
locales, the use of python2.3-cjkcodecs is preferred over the more
limited python2.3-iconvcodec.
Tag: devel::bugtracker, interface::commandline, made-of::lang:python, mail::smtp, protocol::http, protocol::smtp, role::sw:utility, suite::debian, works-with::bugs


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