** How do I reply to an existing bug report?
Reply to 123@debbugs.gnu.org, replacing 123 with the number
of the bug you are interested in. NB this only sends mail to the
-bug-list, it does NOT (?) send a CC to the original bug submitter.
+bug-list, it does NOT send a CC to the original bug submitter.
So you need to explicitly CC him/her (and anyone else you like).
+(This works the same way as all the Emacs mailing lists. We generally
+don't assume anyone who posts to a list is subscribed to it, so we
+cc everyone on replies.)
(Many people think the submitter SHOULD be automatically subscribed
to subsequent discussion, but this does not seem to be implemented.
-See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=37078)
-See also http://debbugs.gnu.org/5439
+See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=37078
+See also http://debbugs.gnu.org/5439 )
Do NOT send a separate copy to the bug list address, since this may
generate a new report. The only time to send mail to the bug list
"Resent-To" header. For a long time Rmail erroneously included such
headers in replies. If you correspond with an Rmail user on a bug,
these addresses may end up in the Cc. Mailing to them does nothing
-but create duplicates and errors. (It is possible you might want to
-have a dialog with the owner address, outside of normal bug
-reporting.)
+but create duplicates and errors. (It is possible, but unlikely, that
+you might want to have a dialog with the owner address, outside of
+normal bug reporting.)
** When reporting a bug, to send a Cc to another address
(e.g. bug-cc-mode@gnu.org), do NOT just use a Cc: header.
The "maintainer email address" is "bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" in most cases.
-** To not get acknowledgement mail from the tracker,
+** To not get acknowledgment mail from the tracker,
add an "X-Debbugs-No-Ack:" header (with any value). If you use Gnus,
you can add an element to gnus-posting-styles to do this automatically, eg:
1) Anyone can define any valid usertag they like. In contrast, only a
limited, predefined set of normal tags are available (see above).
-2) A usertag is associated with a specific email address.
+2) A usertag is associated with a specific user. This is normally
+an email address (with an "@" sign and least 4 characters after the "@"),
+but on debbugs.gnu.org, the definition is less strict - anything with
+5 or more alphanumeric characters will work. For personal tags,
+using an email address is still recommended. Please only use the
+"emacs" user, or other short users, for "official" tags.
-You set usertags in the same way as tags, by talking to the control
-server. One difference is that you can also specify the associated
-email address. If you don't explicitly specify an address, then it
-will use the one from which you send the control message. The address
-must have the form of an email address (with an "@" sign and least 4
-characters after the "@").
+You set usertags in the same way as tags, by talking to the control server.
+One difference is that you can also specify the associated user.
+If you don't explicitly specify a user, then it will use the email
+address from which you send the control message.
*** Setting usertags
a) In a control message:
-user bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
+user emacs # or email@example.com
usertags 1234 any-tag-you-like
This will add a usertag "any-tag-you-like" to bug 1234. The tag will
-be associated with the address "bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org". If you omit
-the first line, the tag will be associated with your email address.
+be associated with the user "emacs". If you omit the first line,
+the tag will be associated with your email address.
The syntax of the usertags command is the same as that of tags (eg wrt
the optional [=+-] argument).
b) In an initial submission, in the pseudo-header:
-User: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
+User: emacs
Usertags: a-new-tag
Again, the "User" is optional.
**** To find all bugs usertagged by a given email address:
-http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?users=bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
+http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?users=emacs
(Supposedly, the "users" field can be a comma-separated list of more
than one email address, but it does not seem to work for me.)
This works just like a normal tags search, but with the addition of a
"users" field. Eg:
-http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?users=bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org;tag=calendar
+http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?users=emacs;tag=calendar
*** To merge bugs:
Eg when bad replies create a bunch of new bugs for the same report.
by the bug number you specify after `--fixes debbugs:' in the bzr
command line (123 in the example above).
-In the bazaar.conf file, this setting should go into the [DEFAULTS]
+In the bazaar.conf file, this setting should go into the [DEFAULT]
section.
In the locations.conf file, it should go into the branch-specific
All discarded messages are stored in /var/lib/mailman/spam.
If a non-spam message accidentally gets discarded, just do:
-cat /var/lib/mailman/spam/not-really-spam.msg | /usr/lib/debbugs/receive
+/usr/lib/debbugs/receive < /var/lib/mailman/spam/not-really-spam.msg
chown Debian-debbugs:Debian-debbugs /var/lib/debbugs/spool/incoming/*
... check it works ...
mv /var/lib/mailman/spam/not-really-spam.msg /var/lib/mailman/not-spam/
Also check that the sender was not added to the auto-discard/reject list
in the debbugs-submit Mailman interface.
+If you don't have the actual mail, just the mailman moderation mail
+version of it, you need to extract the original mail, and add the
+following headers:
+
+1) The leading envelope From line.
+2) Message-ID (get it from /var/log/mailman/vette).
+3) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit
+
+Then pipe it to receive as above.
+
** Administrivia
The debbugs-submit list should have the administrivia option off,
Then if you do all your testing with 'Package: mytest', the resulting
mails should only go to your email address.
+
+** Adding new tags
+
+Add them to @gTags in /etc/debbugs/config.
+I think you also have to add them to 'tags' and 'tags_single_letter'
+in /usr/share/perl5/Debbugs/Config.pm.
+And update /var/www/Developer.html with a description of what the tag means.
+And the "valid tags" list in /var/www/index.html.
+
+** Backups
+
+The FSF sysadmins handle multi-generational backups of the filesystem
+on debbugs.gnu.org. But if you really want to have your own backup of
+the bug database, you can use rsync (this requires login access to
+debbugs.gnu.org):
+
+ rsync -azvv -e ssh USER@debbugs.gnu.org:/var/lib/debbugs/ DEST
+
+Note that this occupies well over 1G of disk space.
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