Re: [SOLVED] potential bug? - was Re: Problem with cryptsetup-initramfs

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Ian Molton wrote:
> Perhaps someone can help me with the bug tracker?

If i have to submit a bug, then i use the e-mail way.
See:

  https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
  "Sending the bug report via e-mail"
  (about 30 lines down the page)
  "An Example Bug Report"
  (another 30 lines down the page)

The first three lines of the example are real mail headers for your
mail client.  The others lines are mail body text.

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In particular i'd do for submitting a bug about xorriso:

- Compose a mail for submit@bugs.debian.org

- Begin the mail body text by

    Package: xorriso

  Maybe after having searched the package name by
      apt-file search ...program.name...

- Next comes the package version header with the version string

    Version: 1.5.4-4

  The internet proposes a tangible command line for this:

    dpkg -s xorriso | grep '^Version'

- After an empty line comes the bug description text.

  A checklist for information to be included is at
    https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
  under
    "Please include in your report:"
  Usually you can provide only a part of this list. Just leave out
  what would stop you from submitting the bug report.

- Read what you wrote and check whether it would be understandable
  for somebody who does not know more about your situation than you
  wrote in the mail body.
  (You may of course assume that the reader is an expert with the
   package in question.)

- Send the mail (as said, to submit@bugs.debian.org)

- Wait for the acknowledgement mail which will tell you the bug number.

  Since i am upstream of xorriso i never submitted a Debian bug for it.
  Here is the acknowledgement for one of my earliest bug reports:

    Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:03:05 +0000
    From: Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org>
    Reply-To: 794868@bugs.debian.org
    To: Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
    Subject: Bug#794868: Acknowledgement (dvd+rw-tools: Burn failure of
             growisofs on DVD-R[W] with write type DAO)

- Subscribe to your new bug report (which is behaving like a little
  mailing list).
  Send a mail with arbitrary subject and body text to the bug number's
  subscribe address

    794868-subscribe@bugs.debian.org

  Or go to the bug report page
    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794868
  and click the "subscribe" link about 10 lines down from the page top.

- If you get replies, send answers to the bug report's own mail address:

    794868@bugs.debian.org

  It might be a good idea to Cc: the mail address from where the answer
  came. Just in case it is not subscribed to the bug report.

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Have a nice day :)

Thomas