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There is a mailserver which can send the bug reports and indices as
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To use it you send a mail message to request@bugs.debian.org. The
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Subject of the message is ignored, except for generating the Subject of
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The body you send should be a series of commands, one per line. You'll
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receive a reply which looks like a transcript of your message being
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interpreted, with a response to each command. No notifications are sent
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to anyone for the commands listed here and the mail isn't logged
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anywhere publicly available.
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Any text on a line starting with a hash sign # is ignored; the server
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will stop processing when it finds a line with a control terminator (
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quit, thank you, or two hyphens are common examples). It will also stop
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if it encounters too many unrecognised or badly-formatted commands. If
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no commands are successfully handled it will send the help text for the
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Requests the transcript for the bug report in question.
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send-detail sends all of the "boring" messages in the transcript
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as well, such as the various auto-acks.
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index-summary by-package
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index-summary by-number
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Request the full index (with full details, and including done
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and forwarded reports), or the summary sorted by package or by
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Requests the index page giving the list of maintainers with bugs
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(open and recently-closed) in the tracking system.
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index maint maintainer
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Requests the index pages of bugs in the system for the
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maintainer maintainer. The search term is an exact match. The
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bug index will be sent in a separate message.
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Requests the index page giving the list of packages with bugs
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(open and recently-closed) in the tracking system.
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index packages package
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Requests the index pages of bugs in the system for the package
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package. The search term is an exact match. The bug index will
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be sent in a separate message.
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send-unmatched [this|0]
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send-unmatched last|-1
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Requests logs of messages not matched to a particular bug
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report, for this week, last week and the week before. (Each week
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Request a file containing information about package(s) and or
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maintainer(s) - the files available are:
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The unified list of packages' maintainers, as used by the
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tracking system. This is derived from information in the
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Packages files, override files and pseudo-packages files.
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override.distribution.non-free
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override.distribution.contrib
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Information about the priorities and sections of packages
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and overriding values for the maintainers. This
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information is used by the process which generates the
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Packages files in the FTP archive. Information is
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available for each of the main distribution trees
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available, by their codewords.
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pseudo-packages.description
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pseudo-packages.maintainers
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List of descriptions and maintainers respectively for
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Requests that the mailservers' reference card be sent in plain
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Requests that this help document be sent by email in plain
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Stops processing at this point of the message. After this you
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may include any text you like, and it will be ignored. You can
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use this to include longer comments than are suitable for #, for
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example for the benefit of human readers of your message
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(reading it via the tracking system logs or due to a CC or BCC).
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One-line comment. The # must be at the start of the line.
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Sets the debugging level to level, which should be a nonnegative
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integer. 0 is no debugging; 1 is usually sufficient. The
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debugging output appears in the transcript. It is not likely to
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be useful to general users of the bug system.
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There is a reference card for the mailservers, available via the WWW,
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in bug-mailserver-refcard.txt or by email using the refcard command
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If you wish to manipulate bug reports you should use the
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control@bugs.debian.org address, which understands a superset of the
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commands listed above. This is described in another document, available
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on the WWW, in the file bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt, or by sending help
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In case you are reading this as a plain text file or via email: an HTML
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version is available via the bug system main contents page
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http://www.debian.org/Bugs/.
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__________________________________________________________________
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Debian BTS administrators <owner@bugs.debian.org>
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Debian bug tracking system
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Copyright � 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997, 2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd,
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1994-1997 Ian Jackson.
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