Help on bug reporting for newbies

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 6/26/06, Dominique Meeùs <miclinux at meeus-d.be> wrote:
> Bug reporting is very common for hackers, I suppose. I am not a hacker
> but I like GNU, I like Ubuntu and I suppose I do help improving things
> if I report a bug. But what is exactly a bug? How do you report a bug
> efficiently? What is the "etiquette" of bug reporting? (The first bug I
> reported I felt was serious, not only for me but for everybody. I feared
> it would not be taken seriously enough and I was a bit aggressive in
> stressing its importance. The maintainer answered that it was no use to
> upset the very people who would help me!)
>
> I would be glad that somebody points to me a resource on these matters.
> I would find much better that a link to some help of the kind would
> appear visibly on most of the pages of the Launchpad website. (I did
> search on Launchpad but didn't find any.)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

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Daniel Robitaille