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-### Developers ###
+### What is Debbugs ###
+Debbugs is a stable, scaleable bug reporting and issue tracking system. Debbugs has a web interface for viewing and searching issues in the database but unlike other bug tracking systems, Debbugs has no web interface for editing bug reports - all modification is done via email.
-This bug tracking system was developed by Ian Jackson from 1994-1997,
-with assistance from nCipher Corporation Limited in 1997. nCipher allowed
-Ian to redistribute modifications he made to the system while working as an
-employee of nCipher.
-
-Since then, it has been developed by the various administrators of
-bugs.debian.org, including Darren Benham, Adam Heath, Josip Rodin, Anthony
-Towns, and Colin Watson. As in the case of Ian, nCipher allowed Colin to
-redistribute modifications he made while working as an employee of nCipher.
+The most notable deployment of Debbugs is on the [Debian project](https://www.debian.org/Bugs/)
### System Requirements ###
* Somewhere to run CGI scripts (unless you don't need the web forms for
searching for bugs by number, package, maintainer or submitter).
+### Where do I get the Source? ###
+
+Debbugs is managed in git. You can clone the repository into your local
+workspace as follows:
+
+ git clone http://bugs-master.debian.org/debbugs-source/debbugs.git
+
+Additional branches are available from:
+
+ * [Don Armstrong](http://git.donarmstrong.com/debbugs.git/)
+
### Installation Instructions ###
Install the Debian package and read `/usr/share/doc/debbugs/README.Debian` file.
If you can't use the `.deb`, do the following:
-1. Run `make install` from the source directory.
+1. Clone the repo
+
+ git clone http://bugs-master.debian.org/debbugs-source/debbugs.git
+
+2. Create version and spool directory
+
+ cd
+ mkdir version spool
+
+3. Retrieve a partial database of bugs for testing
-2. Edit the config files in `/etc/debbugs/` directory to suit your needs.
- Re-run debbugsconfig when you're finished to regenerate the documentation.
+ Optional - It is useful to have some bugs in the database for testing our new Debbugs instance.
-3. Set up the mail arrangements to deliver mail to the right place, and to set
- up a blackhole mail alias if you need one. Ensure that `owner@bugs`, the
- address of the BTS owner, if that's what you're using, is handled by the MTA.
- All other email should be piped into the receive script.
+ 1. Get a list of rsync targets from Debbugs
-4. Set up your HTTP server to point people looking for bug reports to
- `/var/lib/debbugs/www` and set `/var/lib/debbugs/www/cgi` as a valid CGI
- directory.
+ rsync --list-only rsync://bugs-mirror.debian.org
-5. Test things a bit, by sending mail messages to the bug system and running
- `/usr/lib/debbugs/processall` and/or `/usr/lib/debbugs/rebuild`. The latter
- updates index files used by the CGI scripts. If you're feeling brave, you
- can link `/var/lib/debbugs/spool/index.db` to `index.db.realtime` and
- `.../index.archive` to `index.archive.realtime` to remove the need for the
- rebuild script; this is still semi-experimental.
+ 2. Grab bugs ending in 00
-6. If all seems well then install the crontab from
- `/usr/share/doc/debbugs/examples/crontab`.
+ mkdir -p splool/db-h/00;
+ cd spool/db-h;
+ rsync -av rsync://bugs-mirror.debian.org/bts-spool-db/00 .;
+
+4. Retrieve bts-versions directory for testing purposes
+
+ Optional - Required for testing using test database retrieved at 3.
+
+ 1. Pull versions directory
+
+ cd
+ rsync -av rsync://bugs-mirror.debian.org/bts-versions/ versions/
+
+ 2. Pull index directory
+
+ rsync -av rsync://bugs-mirror.debian.org/bts-spool-index index
+
+5. Configure Debbugs config
+
+ 1. Create a config directory for Debbugs
+
+ sudo mkdir /etc/debbugs
+
+ 2. Copy sample configuration to config directory
+
+ sudo cp ~/debbugs/scripts/config.debian /etc/debbugs/config
+
+ 3. Update the following variables
+ * $gConfigDir
+ * $gSpoolDir
+ * $gIndicesDir
+ * $gWebDir
+ * $gDocDir
+
+ 70,72c70,72
+ < $gConfigDir = "/org/bugs.debian.org/etc"; # directory where this file is
+ < $gSpoolDir = "/org/bugs.debian.org/spool"; # working directory
+ < $gIndicesDir = "/org/bugs.debian.org/indices"; # directory where the indices are
+ ---
+ > $gConfigDir = "/etc/debbugs"; # directory where this file is
+ > $gSpoolDir = "/home/opw/spool"; # working directory
+ > $gIndicesDir = "/home/opw/spool/indices"; # directory where the indices are
+
+ 74,75c74,75
+ < $gWebDir = "/org/bugs.debian.org/www"; # base location of web pages
+ < $gDocDir = "/org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/doc"; # location of text doc files
+ ---
+ > $gWebDir = "/home/opw/debbugs/html"; # base location of web pages
+ > $gDocDir = "/home/opw/debbugs/doc"; # location of text doc files
+
+6. Configure Webserver
+
+ 1. Copy example apache config
+
+ sudo cp $HOME/debbugs/examples/apache.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/debbugs.conf
+
+ 2. Update the directory entries and the following variables
+ * DocumentRoot
+ * ScriptAlias
+
+ 5c5
+ < DocumentRoot /var/lib/debbugs/www/
+ ---
+ > DocumentRoot /home/opw/debbugs/html/
+ 10c10
+ < <Directory /var/lib/debbugs/www>
+ ---
+ > <Directory /home/opw/debbugs/html>
+ 16,17c16,17
+ < ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/lib/debbugs/www/cgi/
+ < <Directory "/var/lib/debbugs/www/cgi/">
+ ---
+ > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/opw/debbugs/cgi/
+ > <Directory "/home/opw/debbugs/cgi/">
+
+ 3. Enable required apache mods
+
+ sudo a2enmod rewrite
+ sudo a2enmod cgid
+
+ 4. Install site
+
+ sudo a2ensite debbugs
+
+7. Install dependencies
+
+ sudo apt-get install libmailtools-perl ed libmime-tools-perl libio-stringy-perl libmldbm-perl liburi-perl libsoap-lite-perl libcgi-simple-perl libparams-validate-perl libtext-template-perl libsafe-hole-perl libmail-rfc822-address-perl liblist-moreutils-perl libtext-template-perl libfile-libmagic-perl libgravatar-url-perl libwww-perl imagemagick libapache2-mod-perl2
+
+8. Set up libraries
+
+ 1. Create symlinks to link source to their expected locations
+
+ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/site_perl
+ sudo ln -s /home/opw/debbugs/Debbugs /usr/local/lib/site_perl/
+
+ sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/debbugs/
+ sudo ln -s /home/opw/debbugs/templates /usr/share/debbugs/
+
+9. Create required files
+
+ 1. Create files
+
+ touch /etc/debbugs/pseudo-packages.description
+ touch /etc/debbugs/Source_maintainers
+ touch /etc/debbugs/pseudo-packages.maintainers
+ touch /etc/debbugs/Maintainers
+ touch /etc/debbugs/Maintainers.override
+ mkdir /etc/debbugs/indices
+ touch /etc/debbugs/indices/sources
+
+ 2. Test
+
+ cd $HOME/debbugs
+ perl -c cgi/bugreport.cgi
+ REQUEST_METHOD=GET QUERY_STRING="bug=775300" perl cgi/bugreport.cgi;
+
+10. Install MTA. See README.mail for details.
Note that each line of `/etc/debbugs/Maintainers` file needs to be formatted as
follows:
If you need a template, look in `/usr/share/doc/debbugs/examples/` directory.
-### Contributing to Debbugs ###
-
-#### Getting the Source Code ####
+### How do I contribute to Debbugs? ###
+
+#### Debbugs for Debbugs ####
-Debbugs is managed in git. You can clone the repository into your local
-workspace as follows:
+Debbugs bugs are tracked using Debbugs. The web interface is available:
+[Debbugs bugs](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=debbugs)
- git clone http://bugs-master.debian.org/debbugs-source/debbugs.git
-
-Additional branches are available from:
-
- * [Don Armstrong](http://git.donarmstrong.com/debbugs.git/)
+#### Start contributing ####
Make a working branch for your code and check it out to start working:
Feature patches can also be emailed to the maintaining list at
[Debugs mailing list](debian-debbugs@lists.debian.org)
-### Further Information ###
+### Further Information and Assistance ###
#### Email ####
* [Code](https://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/debbugs.git/)
* [Debbugs Team](https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Debbugs|Debbugs Team)
+#### IRC ####
+
+Join the #debbugs channel on [OFTC](irc.oftc.net)
+
+### Developers ###
+
+This bug tracking system was developed by Ian Jackson from 1994-1997,
+with assistance from nCipher Corporation Limited in 1997. nCipher allowed
+Ian to redistribute modifications he made to the system while working as an
+employee of nCipher.
+
+Since then, it has been developed by the various administrators of
+bugs.debian.org, including Darren Benham, Adam Heath, Josip Rodin, Anthony
+Towns, and Colin Watson. As in the case of Ian, nCipher allowed Colin to
+redistribute modifications he made while working as an employee of nCipher.
+
### Copyright and Lack-of-Warranty Notice ###
* Copyright 1999 Darren O. Benham
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