BTS

Debian wiki bugs portal. This portal covers all aspects of reporting and working on bugs in Debian.

BTS (for Bug Tracking System) is a software created by the Debian Project for its own needs. It provides the following functionality:

Web interface for viewing and browsing bugs and wishlist reports
Can be fully controlled via email
Users do not need to authenticate in order to report issues
Filters to show different classes of bugs (ex.: having patches, with solution pending, already fixed, fixed in upstream, regarding localisation issues, etc.)
User-defined tags
Many more

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Reporting bugs

When reporting a bug, please include the following information:

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Bug reports can get closed in several ways:

A package upload that contains a closes: #12345 in the changelog. When the package is accepted into the archive this triggers a mail to 12345-done@bugs.debian.org with Version: 1.2.3 in the first line of the mail. This will only start when the package in that version is in sync in unstable on all architectures and also in DebianTesting (if the bug affects testing).
Manually, by sending a mail to bugnumber-done@bugs.debian.org with a Version: header field that claims the bug report to be fixed in that version. If the bug report is a non-issue (like, a false report) then the Version: line should not be added to the mail (this is needed for the BTS to be able to distinguish bugs fixed in a specific version and bugs that aren't really bugs).

All wiki pages about working with bugs in Debian: