on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:43:51PM -0700, Ross Boylan (RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org) wrote: > Try reportbug. This is not the only debian bug report tool, but it > seemed the right choice for me, and works pretty well. The only > problem is that it sometimes takes quite awhile for it to query the > existing bug database; I'm not sure why. It's often much slower than > getting the same info on the web, so it's not the speed of the server > that's the problem. > > It automatically fills in your system info, the versions of all > relevant packages, and shows you a list of existing bugs. > > I ran into a lot of problems with files owned by several gnome > packages a couple of weeks ago. I believe they all stem from > differences between the Debian and Ximian packages. These are > probably aggravated by version mismatches. Since ximian no longer > claims to support woody, I commented them out of my apt sources.list. > Since then things have been calm. It did require a bit of ugliness > (forcing installs and removing a couple of packages) to get past the > trouble. > > Others have advocated removing all Ximian (aka Helix) packages. Since > this would temporarily remove much of my system, and since some key > packages aren't in woody (e.g., sawmill), I took a less radical > approach. > > Things may have changed since I looked into it. > > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:07:23PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > > "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote on 06/05/2001 (11:34) : > > > If it's a Debian package (e.g.: not Ximian), file a Debian bug. > > > > Yes, but why isn't this problem picked up by the package process before > > the package gets out there? > > > > And for bug report it would be great if there was a program out there > > that could automate the bug reporting process for you a bit more. > > Bug-buddy is getting there, but as far as I have seen, I have not found > > something similar for Debian. I mean it would be great if the program > > insured that all important details about the system gets included and > > leave the user to write up the bug report in a minute in stead of ten or > > more... > > > > -- > > Preben Randhol ---------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- *Don't* CC me on list mail. Place your response *after* quoted material. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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