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Translation(s): English - Español - Français - Italiano - Português (Brasil) - Українська

Contents

  1. Installation
  2. Usage
  3. Configuration
    1. Using a custom SMTP server
  4. Troubleshooting
  5. See also
  6. External Links

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:

  1. Run reportbug --configure as your normal user. This creates a ~/.reportbugrc file that stores all the configurations.

  2. Follow the instructions and when asked Do you have a 'mail transport agent' (MTA) configured, choose No

  3. Then enter the SMTP host for gmail: smtp.gmail.com:587

  4. For the user name enter: <username>@gmail.com

  5. 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.

Warning: The submit@bugs.debian.org procmail has a rule that silently discards emails from postmaster@<domain>. Combined with the fact that Google G-Suite changes the MAIL FROM address to postmaster@<domain> when the original MAIL FROM is from outside your domain makes your bugs to be silently discarded.

Troubleshooting

Warning: unsupported locale setting: This error relates to Locale configuration. To workaround this problem, invoke the program as LANG=C reportbug

See also

CategoryBugs | CategorySoftware