3 +=====================+
8 The file format used to store the status of a bug (package, severity, etc.)
9 has changed; it is now in an RFC822-like format in order to be more
10 extensible, and is written to .summary files rather than the old .status
11 files. Before accepting any mail with the new version of debbugs, you must
12 run the 'debbugs-upgradestatus' program over your bug spool. The old .status
13 files will be left intact, and will continue to be written in sync with the
14 .summary files for compatibility with external tools.
16 There is a new standalone spam-scanning script called spamscan, which uses
17 the SpamAssassin modules. To use it, set the $gSpamScan variable in
18 /etc/debbugs/config to a true value and $gSpamMailbox to an mbox file to
19 which detected spam should be appended, add /usr/lib/debbugs/spamscan to
20 your crontab as per the example, and optionally set $gSpamRulesDir and
21 $gSpamLocalTestsOnly as desired.
26 Add the following variables to the /etc/debbugs/config file:
28 $gHTMLSuffix = ".html";
30 The use of $gCGIDomain has been cleaned up; formerly, it needed to begin
31 with "http://", which was confusingly inconsistent with all the other domain
32 variables. If you worked around this in your configuration, you will need to
38 Add the following variables to the /etc/debbugs/config file:
40 $gWebHost = "localhost"; # e.g. www.debian.org
41 $gWebHostBugDir = "Bugs"; # e.g. Bugs
42 # For now, don't change this one manually!
43 $gWebDomain = "$gWebHost/$gWebHostBugDir";
44 $gCGIDomain = "$gWebDomain/Bugs/cgi"; # e.g. cgi.debian.org
45 $gPackagePages = "packages.debian.org"; # e.g. packages.debian.org
46 $gSubscriptionDomain = "packages.something"; # e.g. packages.qa.debian.org
47 $gMaintainerFileOverride = "$gConfigDir/Maintainers.override";
48 $gUnknownMaintainerEmail = "$gMaintainerEmail";
49 $gPackageSource = "$gConfigDir/indices/sources";
51 $gWebDomain will probably exist already; change it as shown above.
53 $gSubscriptionDomain is optional.
55 $gMaintainerFileOverride is the name of a file used to manually override the
56 Maintainers file (which is often automatically generated).
58 $gUnknownMaintainerEmail is the address to mail when a bug report arrives
59 for a package with no maintainer in $gMaintainerFile or
60 $gMaintainerFileOverride.
62 $gPackageSource is a file containing three tab-separated columns: package
63 name, component (e.g. main, contrib, non-free), and the corresponding source
66 Add the following variable to the /etc/debbugs/text file:
68 ############################################################################
69 # Description of the tags
70 ############################################################################
72 <dt><code>patch</code>
73 <dd>A patch or some other easy procedure for fixing the $gBug is included in
74 the $gBug logs. If there\'s a patch, but it doesn\'t resolve the $gBug
75 adequately or causes some other problems, this tag should not be used.
77 <dt><code>wontfix</code>
78 <dd>This $gBug won\'t be fixed. Possibly because this is a choice between two
79 arbitrary ways of doing things and the maintainer and submitter prefer
80 different ways of doing things, possibly because changing the behaviour
81 will cause other, worse, problems for others, or possibly for other
84 <dt><code>moreinfo</code>
85 <dd>This $gBug can\'t be addressed until more information is provided by the
86 submitter. The $gBug will be closed if the submitter doesn\'t provide ore
87 information in a reasonable (few months) timeframe. This is for $gBugs like
88 \"It doesn\'t work\". What doesn\'t work?
90 <dt><code>unreproducible</code>
91 <dd>This $gBug can\'t be reproduced on the maintainer\'s system. Assistance
92 from third parties is needed in diagnosing the cause of the problem.
94 <dt><code>fixed</code>
95 <dd>This $gBug is fixed or worked around, but there\'s still an issue that
96 needs to be resolved. (This will eventually replace the \"fixed\" severity)
98 <dt><code>stable</code>
99 <dd>This $gBug affects the stable distribution in particular. This is only
100 intended to be used for ease in identifying release critical $gBugs that
101 affect the stable distribution. It\'ll be replaced eventually with
102 something a little more flexible, probably.
105 The bug database is now stored in a hashed directory format (db-h). You
106 will need to migrate your database to this new format. The
107 /usr/sbin/debbugs-dbhash program is provided to help you perform this
113 There are three new scripts that have to be installed in CGI and the front
114 page (or any other search you have set up) needs to be changed to use these
120 Add the following variables to the /etc/debbugs/config file:
121 (the /usr/share/doc/debbugs/examples/config file can be used as a
124 $gSummaryList = "summary.list"; #debian-bugs-report@lists
127 Make sure you do not have a double ,, as shown here if you're using the
128 default severities. Also, 'fixed' was added to the default severities:
129 - 'normal',"Normal $gBugs",,
130 + 'normal',"Normal $gBugs",
131 + 'fixed',"NMU Fixed $gBugs",
133 These have been added to the /etc/debbugs/text file:
134 +############################################################################
135 +# Here is a blurb to point people to ftp archive of directions. It is
136 +# used by the receive script when bouncing a badly formatted email
138 +# $gTextInstructions = "$gBadEmailPrefix
139 +# $gBadEmailPrefix Instructions are available from ftp.debian.org in /debian
140 +# $gBadEmailPrefix and at all Debian mirror sites, in the files:
141 +# $gBadEmailPrefix doc/bug-reporting.txt
142 +# $gBadEmailPrefix doc/bug-log-access.txt
143 +# $gBadEmailPrefix doc/bug-maint-info.txt
144 +# $gBadEmailPrefix";
145 +############################################################################
146 +$gTextInstructions = "$gBadEmailPrefix";
150 $gHTMLStart = "<BODY TEXT=#0F0F0F>"; #this is used by HTML generation to create the "uniform look"
152 The following code was added to /etc/debbugs/text if you use the new fixed
155 <DT><CODE>wishlist</CODE>
156 - <DD>for any feature request, and also for any $gBugs that are very difficult
157 - to fix due to major design considerations.";
158 + <DD>for any feature request, and also for any $gBugs that are very
159 + difficult to fix due to major design considerations.";
161 + <DT><CODE>fixed</CODE>
162 + <DD>fixed in the current version in the unstable archive but the fix has
163 + not been fixed by the person responsible.
165 In All such entries in /etc/debbugs/text, if you replace <BODY> with
166 $gHTMLStart, all html pages will have the same look (as specified in
169 $gSummaryIndex = "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>$gProject $gBug report logs - summary index</TITLE>
170 $gPackageLog = "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>$gProject $gBug report logs - index by package</TITLE>