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Re: Reporting Bug



On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 01:15 -0500, Adrian O'Dell wrote:
> There appears to be a bug which has Plagued me for years. Oddly I
> don't 
> have the bug in Linux Mint. Did they edit this part of the installer?
> 
> My name contains an apostrophe, which causes the Debian installer to
> not 
> create my user account. Long time ago when I tried to seek help via
> IRC 
> was told I must have done something wrong. Two days ago I confirmed 
> through multiple installs that the apostrophe is the culprit.
> 
> This is the only attempt I will make at filing a bug report. Anyone
> more 
> familiar with filing a bug report, it would be greatly appreciated if
> you would make sure it gets filed properly so it may be resolved. 
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting is an ugly wall of text which 
> immediately discouraged me from wanting to file a bug report anymore.

You can pretty much stop right after the first sentence and just use
reportbug. 

The one gotcha is that reportbug needs either a working mail server
configuration or an SMTP host. In your case you could use GMail:
https://wiki.debian.org/reportbug#Using_GMail.27s_SMTP_Server

Figuring out which package to file the bug against is another problem,
but I'm sure the list can help out there too. 

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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