Bug#463634: marked as done (debian-installer: please mention how to report bugs in the installer)
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Package: debian-installer
Version: 20070308etch1
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice if the installer would tell the user how he/she can
report bugs about the installer. It is not very obvious for a newbie
to look for a package named debian-installer (even thought it has an
intuitive name). Also, the installer should mention the version number
"20070308etch1" somewhere since otherwise users will think that
"4.0r2" would be the version they are using.
Even more complex wish would be to include bug reporting functionality
in the installer itself and may be even provide real-time support via
IRC? ;-)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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On Friday 01 February 2008, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> It would be nice if the installer would tell the user how he/she can
> report bugs about the installer. It is not very obvious for a newbie
> to look for a package named debian-installer (even thought it has an
> intuitive name). Also, the installer should mention the version number
> "20070308etch1" somewhere since otherwise users will think that
> "4.0r2" would be the version they are using.
The preferred way to report issues is to file an installation report, as is
explained in the Installation Guide and mentioned in several places on the
Debian website.
The quick summary:
$ reportbug installation-reports
Other users don't seem to have much trouble finding that information and we
certainly don't want to add a dialog during the installation just for that
information.
> Even more complex wish would be to include bug reporting functionality
> in the installer itself and may be even provide real-time support via
> IRC? ;-)
I doubt we will ever implement that as we cannot really be sure the report
would be submitted correctly at any point in the installation.
As we do not consider this to be an issue, I'm closing your report. Thank
you for submitting it.
Cheers,
FJP
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