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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>2011-02-01 22:06:46 +0100
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>2011-03-09 19:20:42 +0100
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@@ -1,32 +1,30 @@
-Introduction to the bug system request server
-
There is a mailserver which can send the bug reports and indices as
plain text on request.
To use it you send a mail message to request@bugs.debian.org. The
- Subject of the message is ignored, except for generating the Subject
- of the reply.
+ Subject of the message is ignored, except for generating the Subject of
+ the reply.
The body you send should be a series of commands, one per line. You'll
receive a reply which looks like a transcript of your message being
- interpreted, with a response to each command. No notifications are
- sent to anyone for the commands listed here and the mail isn't logged
+ interpreted, with a response to each command. No notifications are sent
+ to anyone for the commands listed here and the mail isn't logged
anywhere publicly available.
Any text on a line starting with a hash sign # is ignored; the server
will stop processing when it finds a line with a control terminator (
- quit, thank you, or two hyphens are common examples). It will also
- stop if it encounters too many unrecognised or badly-formatted
- commands. If no commands are successfully handled it will send the
- help text for the server.
+ quit, thank you, or two hyphens are common examples). It will also stop
+ if it encounters too many unrecognised or badly-formatted commands. If
+ no commands are successfully handled it will send the help text for the
+ server.
Commands available
send bugnumber
send-detail bugnumber
Requests the transcript for the bug report in question.
- send-detail sends all of the "boring" messages in the
- transcript as well, such as the various auto-acks.
+ send-detail sends all of the "boring" messages in the transcript
+ as well, such as the various auto-acks.
index [full]
index-summary by-package
@@ -36,8 +34,8 @@ Commands available
number, respectively.
index-maint
- Requests the index page giving the list of maintainers with
- bugs (open and recently-closed) in the tracking system.
+ Requests the index page giving the list of maintainers with bugs
+ (open and recently-closed) in the tracking system.
index maint maintainer
Requests the index pages of bugs in the system for the
@@ -57,8 +55,8 @@ Commands available
send-unmatched last|-1
send-unmatched old|-2
Requests logs of messages not matched to a particular bug
- report, for this week, last week and the week before. (Each
- week ends on a Wednesday.)
+ report, for this week, last week and the week before. (Each week
+ ends on a Wednesday.)
getinfo filename
Request a file containing information about package(s) and or
@@ -102,19 +100,18 @@ Commands available
--
Stops processing at this point of the message. After this you
may include any text you like, and it will be ignored. You can
- use this to include longer comments than are suitable for #,
- for example for the benefit of human readers of your message
- (reading it via the tracking system logs or due to a CC or
- BCC).
+ use this to include longer comments than are suitable for #, for
+ example for the benefit of human readers of your message
+ (reading it via the tracking system logs or due to a CC or BCC).
#...
One-line comment. The # must be at the start of the line.
debug level
- Sets the debugging level to level, which should be a
- nonnegative integer. 0 is no debugging; 1 is usually
- sufficient. The debugging output appears in the transcript. It
- is not likely to be useful to general users of the bug system.
+ Sets the debugging level to level, which should be a nonnegative
+ integer. 0 is no debugging; 1 is usually sufficient. The
+ debugging output appears in the transcript. It is not likely to
+ be useful to general users of the bug system.
There is a reference card for the mailservers, available via the WWW,
in bug-mailserver-refcard.txt or by email using the refcard command
@@ -122,19 +119,19 @@ Commands available
If you wish to manipulate bug reports you should use the
control@bugs.debian.org address, which understands a superset of the
- commands listed above. This is described in another document,
- available on the WWW, in the file bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt, or by
- sending help to control@bugs.
+ commands listed above. This is described in another document, available
+ on the WWW, in the file bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt, or by sending help
+ to control@bugs.
- In case you are reading this as a plain text file or via email: an
- HTML version is available via the bug system main contents page
+ In case you are reading this as a plain text file or via email: an HTML
+ version is available via the bug system main contents page
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/.
- _________________________________________________________________
+ __________________________________________________________________
Debian BTS administrators <owner@bugs.debian.org>
Debian bug tracking system
Copyright © 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997, 2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd,
1994-1997 Ian Jackson.
- _________________________________________________________________
+ __________________________________________________________________