Could anyone please advise me on reporting upgrade problems with the
unstable distribution (sid). I have not found any place to adress such
information. Perhaps the unstable team is continously aware of such
problems and would only be unnececarily bothered by regular users
sending in reports?
Regards Arnfinn

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On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:42:03AM +0200, Arnfinn Ringvold wrote:
> Could anyone please advise me on reporting upgrade problems with the
> unstable distribution (sid). I have not found any place to adress such
> information. Perhaps the unstable team is continously aware of such
> problems and would only be unnececarily bothered by regular users
> sending in reports?
> Regards Arnfinn
you can 'apt-get install reportbug' (if its not installed) and use it to
report bugs. This is the normal procedure for any bugs in debian. The
only exception are issues with new installs or stable->stable upgrades.
so, 'reportbug PKGNAME' is what you'd do. 'man reportbug' for more info.
-K
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Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:42:03AM +0200, Arnfinn Ringvold wrote:
>> Could anyone please advise me on reporting upgrade problems with the
>> unstable distribution (sid). I have not found any place to adress such
>> information. Perhaps the unstable team is continously aware of such
>> problems and would only be unnececarily bothered by regular users
>> sending in reports?
>> Regards Arnfinn
> you can 'apt-get install reportbug' (if its not installed) and use it to
> report bugs. This is the normal procedure for any bugs in debian. The
> only exception are issues with new installs or stable->stable upgrades.
> so, 'reportbug PKGNAME' is what you'd do. 'man reportbug' for more info.
> -K

AFAIK one only reports bugs in individual packages.
When the OP states 'reporting upgrade problems with the unstable
distribution (sid)', clarification is needed: *what package*?

Previously Sid problems were addressed in this list, but sometimes the
cause is not clear.

E.g. I have xmms (Sid) segfaulting in 2.6.21-sd046 and not in
2.6.20-7-sd046, is that a result of xmms or "something else"(TM). Not
clear... ;-)

Hugo


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Hugo Vanwoerkom escribe:
> Previously Sid problems were addressed in this list, but sometimes the
> cause is not clear.

I've always thought that debian-devel is a more suitable list for sid
issues. Sid is the System In Developement.

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Arnfinn Ringvold wrote:

> Perhaps the unstable team is continously aware of such
> problems and would only be unnececarily bothered by regular users
> sending in reports?

Anybody can report bugs. I have always found that developers/maintainers are
excited to receive bug reports and fix them. Bugs with patches are the
best, IMHO.

Before reporting any bugs, please search the BTS (http://bugs.debian.org)
and see if it is already reported. I suggest using reportbug as it
automatically collects info such as your distribution, versions of
dependencies installed etc.,

Regarding upgrading issues, usually it is something like one of the
dependenices has not yet made into the queue. So wait for a couple of days
and if you still have upgrading issues, then please report it.

hth
raju

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On Sun, 06 May 2007 21:07:20 -0400
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote:

> Arnfinn Ringvold wrote:
>
> > Perhaps the unstable team is continously aware of such
> > problems and would only be unnececarily bothered by regular users
> > sending in reports?
>
> Anybody can report bugs. I have always found that developers/maintainers are
> excited to receive bug reports and fix them. Bugs with patches are the
> best, IMHO.

I've had mixed results reporting bugs; some have received prompt and
sustained attention until resolution, while some have been completely
or almost completely ignored. I'm not knocking the devs; they do a
tremendous job, often pro bono. I'm just warning people that their MMV
with bug reporting. Of course one should still report bugs, since it
will often, probably usually, yield some progress or at least a public
record of the issue.

[snip]

> hth
> raju
>
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Hi users!
Thank you all, for and encouragement Arnfinn