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| == Bug Helper == Bughelper and its components are tools used by the BugSquad to facilitate triaging bugs and share knowledge about bugs. Learn more at [[BugHelper]]. |
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| (Almost) all activity in Malone is relayed to a mailing list, [http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs ubuntu-bugs]. It is recommended that you read this mailing list in order to be notified of new bugs and to learn from others who are dealing with bug reports. | Almost all activity in Malone is relayed to a mailing list, [[http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs|ubuntu-bugs]]. You should subscribe to this list if you want to be notified about new bugs and what people are doing to existing ones. |
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| Other mailing lists: * [http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs desktop-bugs] * [http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs kubuntu-bugs] * [http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs universe-bugs] |
However, it gets ''a lot'' of mail. If you just want to read about new bugs that were filed, you want the following [[Procmail]] script. You should have the `INBOX` variable declared to point to the appropriate mailbox {{{ # Only keep ubuntu-bugs mail that announces newly reported bugs. :0 * ^TO_ubuntu-bugs@lists\.ubuntu\.com * ^X-Launchpad-Bug: { :0 B * ^Public bug reported: $INBOX :0 /dev/null } }}} Other mailing lists you might be interested in are: * [[http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs|desktop-bugs]] * [[http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kernel-bugs|kernel-bugs]] * [[http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs|kubuntu-bugs]] * [[http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs|universe-bugs]] |
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Nowadays we simply use Malone and our Bug bot works like this: {{{ <slomo_> seb128: any ideas on bug #43597? seems to be really weird to me... <Ubugtu> Malone bug 43597 in gtk+2.0 "ctrl-x makes text bold (instead of cut)" [Normal,Unconfirmed] http://launchpad.net/bugs/43597 }}} === For hysterical raisins === |
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| Need to know which package is responsible for a certain file {{{ dpkg -S /path/to/file }}} Also consider {{{dlocate}}}. See [[Bugs/FindRightPackage]] for more hints. |
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| Back to HelpingWithBugs | Back to '''[[HelpingWithBugs]]'''.<<BR>><<BR>> [[CategoryBugSquad]] |
Links
Bug trackers |
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Debian's Bug tracker |
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Package information in Debian |
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Direct use of those |
http://bugs.debian.org/<package> or http://packages.debian.org/<package> |
Direct use of those (source packages) |
http://bugs.debian.org/src:<package> or http://packages.debian.org/src:<package> |
GNOME's Bug tracker |
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Additional information |
Bug Helper
Bughelper and its components are tools used by the BugSquad to facilitate triaging bugs and share knowledge about bugs. Learn more at BugHelper.
Mailing lists
Almost all activity in Malone is relayed to a mailing list, ubuntu-bugs. You should subscribe to this list if you want to be notified about new bugs and what people are doing to existing ones.
However, it gets a lot of mail. If you just want to read about new bugs that were filed, you want the following Procmail script. You should have the INBOX variable declared to point to the appropriate mailbox
# Only keep ubuntu-bugs mail that announces newly reported bugs.
:0
* ^TO_ubuntu-bugs@lists\.ubuntu\.com
* ^X-Launchpad-Bug:
{
:0 B
* ^Public bug reported:
$INBOX
:0
/dev/null
}Other mailing lists you might be interested in are:
Bug bot
Nowadays we simply use Malone and our Bug bot works like this:
<slomo_> seb128: any ideas on bug #43597? seems to be really weird to me... <Ubugtu> Malone bug 43597 in gtk+2.0 "ctrl-x makes text bold (instead of cut)" [Normal,Unconfirmed] http://launchpad.net/bugs/43597
For hysterical raisins
In #ubuntu-bugs and #ubuntu-desktop we have a bug bot, which behaves like this:
<dholbach> ubuntu bug 15700 <Ubugtu> Ubuntu Bugzilla bug #15700: esound causes desktop session to hang Product: Ubuntu, Component: esound, Severity: normal, Assigned to: martin.pitt@ubuntu.com, Status: ASSIGNED http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15700 <dholbach> malone bug 1356 <Ubugtu> Malone bug #1356: On person merge, remove one wiki name Fix req. for: launchpad (upstream), Severity: Normal, Assigned to: Stuart Bishop, Status: Fixed http://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/1356
Which package does a file belong to?
Need to know which package is responsible for a certain file
dpkg -S /path/to/file
Also consider dlocate. See Bugs/FindRightPackage for more hints.
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