[ Replying to debian-devel rather than the bug itself, since this is not ] [ really relevant to resolving the bug. ] On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:53:26PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > > Besides, if someone finds reportbug too complicated (in its default > > mode; if you switch to advanced mode, it can be complicated, yes), he > > shouldn't report bugs at all. Last I used reportbug, it guided me > > through the bugreporting process, with lots of hints and whatnot. Can't > > be easier than that, I'd say. > ACK. > The *only* problem of reportbug is that users do not really know > about it. About 50% of people droping in at Debian boothes do > not have the slightest idea how to repot bugs - even people who > are long standing Debian users. So I would suggest to reassign this > bug to debian-www that this tool should be documented better on the > web pages. Or may be even debian-installer should mention reportbug > to introduce users to this evident tool. Debian Hint #1: You can report a bug in a package with the 'reportbug' command, which is available in the reportbug package. (from the fortunes-debian-hints package) How to get that out in front of more people is a question I am not able to answer usefully at this time, but the hints package has been there a goodly while (and is, as always, welcoming more hints submitted...) -- Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org> ,''`. Debian GNU/NetBSD(i386) porter : :' : `. `' `-
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