[GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Sep 5 13:30:24 EDT 2018


On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 12:31:24PM -0400, Alex Volkov via talk wrote:
> I don't think just pointing to a very long page with mailing list with no
> other explanation is very helpful.
> 
> Olbigtenor, if you have a problem with particular package, you can go to
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ look for that package you're having the problem
> with and see a discussion related to that particular issue.
> I.e. Here are all the issues related to firmware-amd-graphics --
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=firmware-amd-graphics
> 
> You can look at a particular bug like this page --
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907598
> 
> Then you can contribute to the conversation just by emailing to
> 907598 at bugs.debian.org (reply link on the page).
> 
> In order to report bugs you can report them via email --
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
> 
> Or install reportbug which will help you format bug report along with
> automatically selecting all the relevant configuration from your system --
> https://wiki.debian.org/reportbug
> 
> However you need to configure your computer to send email, which sometimes
> can be a bit annoying.

Well reportbug does support saving the report to a file that you can
then send from a machine that does have email access, but yes having
direct email sending ability makes it much easier to use.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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