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<p>Debian has a bug tracking system (BTS) in which we file
details of bugs reported by users and developers.  Each bug is given a
number, and is kept on file until it is marked as having been dealt
with.</p>

<h2>How to report a bug in Debian</h2>

<p>A separate page has instructions and tips on <a href="Reporting">how to
report a bug</a> if you encounter problems in the Debian distribution.</p>

<h2>Bug tracking system documentation</h2>

<ul>
  <li><a href="Developer">Advanced information on how to use the system</a></li>
  <li><a href="server-control">Information on manipulating bugs by email</a></li>
  <li><a href="server-refcard">Mailservers' reference card</a></li>
  <li><a href="Access">Ways of accessing the bug report logs</a></li>
  <li><a href="server-request">Requesting bug reports by email</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Viewing bug reports on the WWW</h2>

<p style="text-align:center">
<img src="https://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/all.png?m=0.8&amp;h=250&amp;w=600"
alt="Bug count for all" />
</p>

<p>Find a bug by <strong>number</strong>:
  <br />
  <a name="bugreport"></a>
  <form method="get" action="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi">
  <p>
  <input type="text" size="9" name="bug" value="">
  <label><input type="checkbox" name="mbox" value="yes"> as mbox</label>
  <label><input type="checkbox" name="trim" value="no"> show all headers</label>
  <label><input type="checkbox" name="boring" value="yes"> show boring messages</label>
  <input type="submit" value="Find">
  </p>
  </form>

<h2>Select bug reports on the WWW</h2>
<a name="pkgreport"></a>

<bts_main_form>

<table class="forms">

<tr><td><h2>Select bugs</h2>
</td>
<td>
<bts_select_form>
</td>
<td>
<p>More selections can be added after the first search. If a later selection
   is on the same search field, the results are ORed. If it is on a different
   field, the results are ANDed.</p>
<p>Valid severities are <bts_severities_all>.</p>
<p>Valid tags are <bts_tags>.</p>
</td>
</tr>

<tr><td><h2>Include Bugs</h2></td>
<td>
<bts_include_form>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>

<tr><td><h2>Exclude Bugs</h2></td>
<td>
<bts_exclude_form>
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>

<tr><td><h2>Order by</h2></td>
<td>
<bts_orderby_form>
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>

<tr><td><h2>Misc options</h2></td>
<td>
<bts_miscopts_form>
</td>
</tr>

<tr><td><h2>Submit</h2></td><td colspan=2>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</td></tr>

</table>
</form>

<p>The above queries can also be made by visiting URLs of the following
forms, respectively:</p>
<ul>
  <li><tt>https://bugs.debian.org/<var>number</var></tt></li>
  <li><tt>https://bugs.debian.org/mbox:<var>number</var></tt></li>
  <li><tt>https://bugs.debian.org/<var>package</var></tt></li>
  <li><tt>https://bugs.debian.org/src:<var>sourcepackage</var></tt></li>
  <li><tt>https://bugs.debian.org/<var>maintainer@email.address</var></tt></li>
  <li><tt>https://bugs.debian.org/from:<var>submitter@email.address</var></tt></li>
  <li><tt>https://bugs.debian.org/severity:<var>severity</var></tt></li>
  <li><tt>https://bugs.debian.org/tag:<var>tag</var></tt></li>
</ul>

<h2>Searching bug reports</h2>

## Link to bugs-search.d.o removed because of Bug#629645 (service down):
# <p>You can search bug reports using
# our <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi">HyperEstraier
# based search engine.</a></p>

<p>The Ultimate Debian Database (UDD) provides a multi-criteria
<a href="https://udd.debian.org/bugs/">search engine for bugs</a>.</p>

<p>Another way to search bug reports is to use
<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/forum/linux.debian.bugs.dist">Google Groups</a>.
</p>

<p>Alternative sites that allow searching for bug reports include
<a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/">The
Mail Archive</a>.</p>

<h2>Supplementary information</h2>

<p>The current list of <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/">
Release Critical Bugs</a>.</p>

<p>The current list of <a href="pseudo-packages">pseudo-packages</a>
recognized by the Debian bug tracking system.</p>

<p>The following bug report indices are available:</p>

<ul>
  <li>Packages with 
      <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=pkg">active</a>
      and
      <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=pkg&amp;archive=yes">archived</a>
      bug reports.</li>
  <li>Source packages with 
      <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=src">active</a>
      and
      <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=src&amp;archive=yes">archived</a>
      bug reports.</li>
  <li>Maintainers of packages with
      <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=maint">active</a>
      and
      <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=maint&amp;archive=yes">archived</a>
      bug reports.</li>
  <li>Submitters of
      <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=submitter">active</a>
      and
      <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=submitter&amp;archive=yes">archived</a>
      bug reports.</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Note:</strong> some of the previously available indices of bug
reports aren't available due to internal problems with the program that
generated them. We apologize for the inconvenience.</p>

<h2>Spam Reports</h2>
<p>The Bug Tracking system often receives spam. To report spam in the
  bug tracking system, find the bug report <a href="#bugreport">by
  number</a>, and click "this bug log contains spam" near the
  bottom.</p>

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