* Quick-start guide
-This is 95% of all you will ever need.
+This is 95% of all you will ever need to know.
** How do I report a bug?
Use M-x report-emacs-bug, or send mail to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
For a list of all bugs, see http://debbugs.gnu.org/db/pa/lemacs.html
This is a static page, updated once a day. There is also a dynamic
-list, generated on request, but since there are many bug reports this
-is slow and not recommended.
+list, generated on request. This accepts various options, eg to see
+the most recent bugs:
+
+http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?newest=100
+
+Or follow the links on the front page http://debbugs.gnu.org .
** How do I report a bug in Emacs now?
The same way as you always did. Send mail to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org,
in the subsequent discussion will end up creating a new bug.
This is annoying.
+(So annoying that a form of message-id tracking has been implemented
+to hopefully stop this happening, but it is still better to use X-Debbugs-CC.)
+
If a new report contains X-Debbugs-CC in the input, this is
converted to a real Cc header in the output. (See Bug#1720).
It is also merged into the Resent-CC header (see below).
Version: 23.0.60
Severity: minor
-Optionally, add a sub-package, eg Package: emacs,calendar.
-This can include tags. Some things (e.g. submitter) don't seem to
+This can also include tags. Some things (e.g. submitter) don't seem to
work here.
Otherwise, send mail to the control server, control@debbugs.gnu.org.
123 # given bug number
123;mbox=yes # mbox version of given bug
-package # bugs in given package (don't use "emacs" - too many bugs!)
+package # bugs in given package
from:submitter@email.address
severity:severity # all bugs of given severity
tag:tag # all bugs with given tag
search box. The only piece you really need to add is the "users"
portion, the rest has the same syntax as normal.
+**** To browse bugs by usertag:
+http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=users
+
**** To find all bugs usertagged by a given email address:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?users=bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
notfixed 123 23.0.60
*** To assign or reassign a bug to a package or list of packages:
-reassign 1234 emacs,cc-mode
+reassign 1234 emacs
** To remove spam from the tracker, move it to the `spam' pseudo-package:
reassign 123 spam