- DEBIAN BUG TRACKING SYSTEM
- --------------------------
+ debbugs, Debian bug tracking system
+ -----------------------------------
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.
+
=============================================================================
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
=============================================================================
+
- GNU date
- GNU gzip
- Perl 5 (5.005 is known to work)
- The bug system requires its own mail domain. It comes with code
which understands how exim, qmail and sendmail deliver mail for such a
domain to a script.
- - A webserver (this is easiest if the bug system can write
- directly to the webspace).
+ - A webserver. For the old system of static HTML pages generated for
+ bug reports and index pages, this is easiest if the bug system can
+ write directly to the webspace; for the new system of CGI scripts
+ that generate web pages on the fly, write access is not required.
- Somewhere to run CGI scripts (unless you don't need the web forms for
searching for bugs by number, package, maintainer or submitter).
1. Run "make install" from the source directory.
2. Edit the config files in /etc/debbugs/ directory to suit your needs.
+Re-run debbugsconfig when you're finished to regenerate the
+documentation.
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
directory.
5. Test things a bit, by sending mail messages to the bug system and
-running .../scripts/processall and/or .../scripts/update-html.
+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.
6. If all seems well then install the crontab from
/usr/share/doc/debbugs/examples/crontab.
=============================================================================
FURTHER INFORMATION
=============================================================================
-Web: http://benham.net/debbugs/
+
Email: debian-debbugs@lists.debian.org (mailing list)
- debian-debbugs-request@lists.debian.org with the word subscribe in the
- subject line
+ To subscribe, email debian-debbugs-request@lists.debian.org
+ with the word "subscribe" in the subject line
+Outdated web site: http://benham.net/debbugs/
=============================================================================
COPYRIGHT AND LACK-OF-WARRANTY NOTICE
=============================================================================
-Copyright 1999 Darren O. Benham <gecko@debian.org>
-Copyright 1994,1995,1996,1997 Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
-Copyright 1997 nCipher Corporation Limited
+
+Copyright 1999 Darren O. Benham
+Copyright 1994-1997 Ian Jackson
+Copyright 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Limited
This bug system is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
with this program, or one should be available above; if not, write to the
Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307, USA.
-
- - Darren Benham 14 Oct, 1999
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