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'''DebPkg:reportbug''' is a tool designed to make the [[BTS|reporting of bugs in Debian]] and derived distributions relatively painless. | '''DebPkg:reportbug''' is a tool designed to make the [[BTS|reporting of bug(s) in Debian]] and its derived distributions, relatively painless. |
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This package provides access to the Debian Bug Tracking System, which can be used for both reporting and researching bugs, by a number of interfaces, including email, web, and command-line utilities. | This package provides access to the Debian Bug Tracking System, which can be used for both reporting, and researching bugs, by a number of interfaces, including email, web, and command-line utilities. |
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reportbug is designed to be used on systems with an installed Mail Transport Agent ([[MTA]]), like exim or sendmail; however, you can edit the configuration file and send reports using any available mail server. Here is an example using a GMail account: | reportbug is designed to be used on systems with an installed Mail Transport Agent ([[MTA]]), like exim, or sendmail; however, you can edit the configuration file; and send reports using any available mail server. Here, is an example using a GMail account: |
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reportbug is a tool designed to make the reporting of bug(s) in Debian and its derived distributions, relatively painless.
This package provides access to the Debian Bug Tracking System, which can be used for both reporting, and researching bugs, by a number of interfaces, including email, web, and command-line utilities.
Installation
Install the reportbug package.
Usage
Report a bug: reportbug packagename
To view bugs for a package: querybts packagename
There is also a robot at control@bugs.debian.org that expects specially-crafted control messages for the Debian Bug Tracking System.
Configuration
Using a custom SMTP server
reportbug is designed to be used on systems with an installed Mail Transport Agent (MTA), like exim, or sendmail; however, you can edit the configuration file; and send reports using any available mail server. Here, is an example using a GMail account:
Run reportbug --configure as your normal user. This creates a ~/.reportbugrc file that stores all the configurations.
Follow the instructions and when asked Do you have a 'mail transport agent' (MTA) configured, choose No
Then enter the SMTP host for gmail: smtp.gmail.com:587
For the user name enter: <username>@gmail.com
For the question Does your SMTP host require TLS authentication?, choose Yes
If you have set up Google's two-factor authentication for your GMail account, you can create an application-specific password to use with reportbug.
Troubleshooting
Warning: unsupported locale setting: This error relates to Locale configuration. To workaround this problem, invoke the program as LANG=C reportbug
See also