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diff --git a/includes/squeeze/common/doc/bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt b/includes/squeeze/common/doc/bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt index 10fb802af..56ddd08c0 100644 --- a/includes/squeeze/common/doc/bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt +++ b/includes/squeeze/common/doc/bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@ +Introduction to the bug control and manipulation mailserver + Just as request@bugs.debian.org allows the retrieval of bug data and documentation by email, control@bugs.debian.org allows bug reports to be manipulated in various ways. The control server works just like the request server, except that it has some additional commands; in fact, it's the same program. The two - addresses are only separated to avoid users making mistakes and causing - problems while merely trying to request information. + addresses are only separated to avoid users making mistakes and + causing problems while merely trying to request information. Since the commands specific to the control server actually change the status of a bug, a notification about processing the commands is sent @@ -24,36 +26,34 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver - General Versioning Duplicates Misc. + General Versioning Duplicates Misc. reassign severity tag retitle submitter - affects - summary - found | notfound - fixed | notfixed - reopen + found | notfound + fixed | notfixed + reopen - merge | unmerge - forcemerge - clone + merge | unmerge + forcemerge + clone - thanks - # - forwarded | notforwarded - owner | noowner - block | unblock - archive | unarchive + thanks + # + forwarded | notforwarded + owner | noowner + block | unblock + archive | unarchive reassign bugnumber package [ version ] Records that bug #bugnumber is a bug in package. This can be - used to set the package if the user forgot the pseudo-header, or - to change an earlier assignment. No notifications are sent to - anyone (other than the usual information in the processing + used to set the package if the user forgot the pseudo-header, + or to change an earlier assignment. No notifications are sent + to anyone (other than the usual information in the processing transcript). If you supply a version, the bug tracking system will note that @@ -62,55 +62,52 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver You can assign a bug to two packages at once by separating the package names with a comma. However, you should only do this if the bug can be fixed by a change to either package. If this is - not the case, you should clone the bug and reassign the clone to - the other package. + not the case, you should clone the bug and reassign the clone + to the other package. reopen bugnumber [ originator-address | = | ! ] Reopens #bugnumber if it is closed. - By default, or if you specify =, the original submitter is still - as the originator of the report, so that they will get the ack - when it is closed again. + By default, or if you specify =, the original submitter is + still as the originator of the report, so that they will get + the ack when it is closed again. If you supply an originator-address the originator will be set to the address you supply. If you wish to become the new - originator of the reopened report you can use the ! shorthand or - specify your own email address. + originator of the reopened report you can use the ! shorthand + or specify your own email address. It is usually a good idea to tell the person who is about to be recorded as the originator that you're reopening the report, so that they will know to expect the ack which they'll get when it is closed again. - If the bug is not closed then reopen won't do anything, not even - change the originator. To change the originator of an open bug - report, use the submitter command; note that this will inform - the original submitter of the change. + If the bug is not closed then reopen won't do anything, not + even change the originator. To change the originator of an open + bug report, use the submitter command; note that this will + inform the original submitter of the change. If the bug was recorded as being closed in a particular version of a package but recurred in a later version, it is better to use the found command instead. found bugnumber [ version ] - Record that #bugnumber has been encountered in the given version - of the package to which it is assigned. version may be a fully - qualified version, of the form sourcepackagename/version. + Record that #bugnumber has been encountered in the given + version of the package to which it is assigned. The bug tracking system uses this information, in conjunction - with fixed versions recorded when closing bugs, to display lists - of bugs open in various versions of each package. It considers a - bug to be open when it has no fixed version, or when it has been - found more recently than it has been fixed. + with fixed versions recorded when closing bugs, to display + lists of bugs open in various versions of each package. It + considers a bug to be open when it has no fixed version, or + when it has been found more recently than it has been fixed. If no version is given, then the list of fixed versions for the bug is cleared. This is identical to the behaviour of reopen. - version may be a fully qualified version, of the form - sourcepackagename/version. This command will only cause a bug to be marked as not done if - no version is specified, or if the version being marked found is - equal to or greater than the highest version marked fixed. (If - you are certain that you want the bug marked as not done, use + no version is specified, or if the version being marked found + is equal to the version which was last marked fixed. (If you + are certain that you want the bug marked as not done, use reopen in conjunction with found.) This command was introduced in preference to reopen because it @@ -119,18 +116,16 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver notfound bugnumber version Remove the record that #bugnumber was encountered in the given - version of the package to which it is assigned. version may be a - fully qualified version, of the form sourcepackagename/version. + version of the package to which it is assigned. This differs from closing the bug at that version in that the bug is not listed as fixed in that version either; no - information about that version will be known. It is intended for - fixing mistakes in the record of when a bug was found. + information about that version will be known. It is intended + for fixing mistakes in the record of when a bug was found. fixed bugnumber version Indicate that bug #bugnumber was fixed in the given version of - the package to which it is assigned. version may be a fully - qualified version, of the form sourcepackagename/version. + the package to which it is assigned. This does not cause the bug to be marked as closed, it merely adds another version in which the bug was fixed. Use the @@ -139,16 +134,11 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver notfixed bugnumber version Remove the record that bug #bugnumber has been fixed in the - given version. version may be a fully qualified version, of the - form sourcepackagename/version. + given version. This command is equivalent to found followed by notfound (the found removes the fixed at a particular version, and notfound - removes the found) with the exception that the bug is not - reopened if the found version is greater than any existing fixed - version. It is intended for fixing mistakes in the record of - when a bug was fixed; in most cases, you actually want found, - not notfixed. + removes the found.) submitter bugnumber originator-address | ! Changes the originator of #bugnumber to originator-address. @@ -165,14 +155,7 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver maintainer at address. This does not actually forward the report. This can be used to change an existing incorrect forwarded-to address, or to record a new one for a bug that - wasn't previously noted as having been forwarded. address should - generally be a URI, or possibly an email address. Using a URI - where possible allows tools to query a remote bug tracking - system (such as bugzilla) for a bug's status. - - Example usage: - - forwarded 12345 http://bugz.illa.foo/cgi/54321 + wasn't previously noted as having been forwarded. notforwarded bugnumber Forgets any idea that bugnumber has been forwarded to any @@ -180,14 +163,17 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver forwarded then this will do nothing. retitle bugnumber new-title - Changes the title of a bug report to that specified (the default - is the Subject mail header from the original report). Will also - change the titles of all bug reports which this bug is merged - with. + Changes the title of a bug report to that specified (the + default is the Subject mail header from the original report). + + Unlike most of the other bug-manipulation commands when used on + one of a set of merged reports this will change the title of + only the individual bug requested, and not all those with which + it is merged. severity bugnumber severity - Set the severity level for bug report #bugnumber to severity. No - notification is sent to the user who reported the bug. + Set the severity level for bug report #bugnumber to severity. + No notification is sent to the user who reported the bug. Severities are critical, grave, serious, important, normal, minor, and wishlist. @@ -195,27 +181,6 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver For their meanings please consult the general developers' documentation for the bug system. - affects bugnumber [ + | - | = ] package [ package ... ] - Indicates that a bug affects another package. In the case where - bugnumber causes breakage in package even though the bug is - actually present in the package to which it is assigned, this - causes the bug to be listed by default in the package list of - package. This should generally be used where the bug is severe - enough to cause multiple reports from users to be assigned to - the wrong package. - - summary bugnumber [message number] - Selects a message to use as a summary of a bug. The first - non-pseudoheader paragraph of that message is parsed and set as - the summary of the bug which is displayed on the top of the bug - report page. This is useful in cases where the original report - doesn't correctly describe the problem or the bug has many - messages which make it difficult to identify the actual problem. - - If message number is not given, clears the summary. message - number is the message number as listed in the bugreport cgi - script output. - clone bugnumber NewID [ new IDs ... ] The clone control command allows you to duplicate a bug report. It is useful in the case where a single report actually @@ -238,21 +203,21 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver merge -1 -3 merge bugnumber bugnumber ... - Merges two or more bug reports. When reports are merged opening, - closing, marking or unmarking as forwarded and reassigning any - of the bugs to a new package will have an identical effect on - all of the merged reports. + Merges two or more bug reports. When reports are merged + opening, closing, marking or unmarking as forwarded and + reassigning any of the bugs to a new package will have an + identical effect on all of the merged reports. Before bugs can be merged they must be in exactly the same - state: either all open or all closed, with the same forwarded-to - upstream author address or all not marked as forwarded, all - assigned to the same package or package(s) (an exact string - comparison is done on the package to which the bug is assigned), - and all of the same severity. If they don't start out in the - same state you should use reassign, reopen and so forth to make - sure that they are before using merge. Titles are not required - to match, and will not be affected by the merge. Tags are not - required to match, either, they will be joined. + state: either all open or all closed, with the same + forwarded-to upstream author address or all not marked as + forwarded, all assigned to the same package or package(s) (an + exact string comparison is done on the package to which the bug + is assigned), and all of the same severity. If they don't start + out in the same state you should use reassign, reopen and so + forth to make sure that they are before using merge. Titles are + not required to match, and will not be affected by the merge. + Tags are not required to match, either, they will be joined. If any of the bugs listed in a merge command is already merged with another bug then all the reports merged with any of the @@ -262,15 +227,17 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver Merging reports causes a note to appear on each report's logs; on the WWW pages this is includes links to the other bugs. - Merged reports are all expired simultaneously, and only when all - of the reports each separately meet the criteria for expiry. + Merged reports are all expired simultaneously, and only when + all of the reports each separately meet the criteria for + expiry. forcemerge bugnumber bugnumber ... - Forcibly merges two or more bug reports. The settings of the - first bug listed which must be equal in a normal merge are - assigned to the bugs listed next. To avoid typos erroneously - merging bugs, bugs must be in the same package. See the text - above for a description of what merging means. + Forcibly merges two or more bug reports. The first bug listed + is the master bug, and its settings (the settings which must be + equal in a normal merge) are assigned to the bugs listed next. + To avoid typos erroneously merging bugs, bugs must be in the + same package. See the text above for a description of what + merging means. Note that this makes it possible to close bugs by merging; you are responsible for notifying submitters with an appropriate @@ -292,13 +259,12 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver you want to disconnect more than one bug simply include several unmerge commands in your message. - tags bugnumber [ + | - | = ] tag [ tag ... ] [ + | - | = tag ... ] ] - Sets tags for the bug report #bugnumber. No notification is sent - to the user who reported the bug. Setting the action to + means - to add each tag following, - means to remove each tag following, - and = means to set the following tags to the list provided. - Intervening +, -, or = change the action for the tags following. - The default action is adding. + tags bugnumber [ + | - | = ] tag [ tag ... ] + Sets tags for the bug report #bugnumber. No notification is + sent to the user who reported the bug. Setting the action to + + means to add each given tag, - means to remove each given tag, + and = means to ignore the current tags and set them afresh to + the list provided. The default action is adding. Example usage: @@ -317,9 +283,6 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver # set tags to exactly 'moreinfo' and 'unreproducible' tags 123456 = moreinfo unreproducible - # remove the moreinfo tag and add a patch tag - tags 123456 - moreinfo + patch - Available tags currently include patch, wontfix, moreinfo, unreproducible, help, pending, fixed, fixed-in-experimental, fixed-upstream, security, upstream, confirmed, d-i, ipv6, lfs, @@ -341,24 +304,24 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver close bugnumber [ fixed-version ] (deprecated) Close bug report #bugnumber. - A notification is sent to the user who reported the bug, but (in - contrast to mailing bugnumber-done@bugs.debian.org) the text of - the mail which caused the bug to be closed is not included in - that notification. The maintainer who closes a report needs to - ensure, probably by sending a separate message, that the user - who reported the bug knows why it is being closed. The use of - this command is therefore deprecated. See the developer's - information about how to close a bug properly. + A notification is sent to the user who reported the bug, but + (in contrast to mailing bugnumber-done@bugs.debian.org) the + text of the mail which caused the bug to be closed is not + included in that notification. The maintainer who closes a + report needs to ensure, probably by sending a separate message, + that the user who reported the bug knows why it is being + closed. The use of this command is therefore deprecated. See + the developer's information about how to close a bug properly. - If you supply a fixed-version, the bug tracking system will note - that the bug was fixed in that version of the package. + If you supply a fixed-version, the bug tracking system will + note that the bug was fixed in that version of the package. package [ packagename ... ] Limits the following commands so that they will only apply to - bugs filed against the listed packages. You can list one or more - packages. If you don't list any packages, the following commands - will apply to all bugs. You're encouraged to use this as a - safety feature in case you accidentally use the wrong bug + bugs filed against the listed packages. You can list one or + more packages. If you don't list any packages, the following + commands will apply to all bugs. You're encouraged to use this + as a safety feature in case you accidentally use the wrong bug numbers. Example usage: @@ -374,12 +337,13 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver severity 234567 wishlist owner bugnumber address | ! - Sets address to be the "owner" of #bugnumber. The owner of a bug - claims responsibility for fixing it. This is useful to share out - work in cases where a package has a team of maintainers. + Sets address to be the "owner" of #bugnumber. The owner of a + bug claims responsibility for fixing it. This is useful to + share out work in cases where a package has a team of + maintainers. - If you wish to become the owner of the bug yourself, you can use - the ! shorthand or specify your own email address. + If you wish to become the owner of the bug yourself, you can + use the ! shorthand or specify your own email address. noowner bugnumber Forgets any idea that the bug has an owner other than the usual @@ -392,20 +356,17 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver requirements for archival, ignoring time. unarchive bugnumber - Unarchives a bug that was previously archived. Unarchival should - generally be coupled with reopen and found/fixed as appropriate. - Bugs that have been unarchived can be archived using archive - assuming the non-time based archival requirements are met. You - should not be using unarchive to make trivial changes to - archived bugs, such as changing the submitter; its primary - purpose is to allow for the reopening of bugs which have been - archived without the intervention of BTS administrators. + Unarchives a bug that was previously archived. Unarchival + should generally be coupled with reopen and found/fixed as + appropriate. Bugs that have been unarchived can be archived + using archive assuming the non-time based archival requirements + are met. #... One-line comment. The # must be at the start of the line. The - text of comments will be included in the acknowledgement sent to - the sender and to affected maintainers, so you can use this to - document the reasons for your commands. + text of comments will be included in the acknowledgement sent + to the sender and to affected maintainers, so you can use this + to document the reasons for your commands. quit stop @@ -419,12 +380,12 @@ Commands available at the control mailserver message; the remainder of the message can include explanations, signatures or anything else, none of it will be detected by the control server. - __________________________________________________________________ + _________________________________________________________________ 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. - __________________________________________________________________ + _________________________________________________________________ |