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* admin/notes/bugtracker: Minor updates.

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The Emacs Bug Tracker can be found at http://debbugs.gnu.org/

* Quick-start guide

This is 95% of all you will ever need.

** How do I report a bug?
Use M-x report-emacs-bug, or send mail to [e-mail].
If you want to Cc someone, use an "X-Debbugs-CC" header instead.

* More detailed information

For a list of all bugs, see http://debbugs.gnu.org/db/pa/lemacs.html
This is a static page, updated once a day.  There is also a dynamic
list, generated on request, but since there are many bug reports this
is slow and not recommended.

** How do I report a bug in Emacs now?
The same way as you always did.  Send mail to [e-mail],
or use M-x report-emacs-bug.

(e.g. [e-mail]), do NOT just use a Cc: header.
Instead, use "X-Debbugs-CC:".  This ensures the Cc address will get a
mail with the bug report number in.  If you do not do this, each reply
in the subsequent discussion will end up creating a new bug.
This is annoying.

If a new report contains X-Debbugs-CC in the input, this is
converted to a real Cc header in the output.  (See Bug#1720).
It is also merged into the Resent-CC header (see below).

Package: emacs
Version: 23.0.60
Severity: minor

Optionally, add a sub-package, eg Package: emacs,calendar.
This can include tags.  Some things (e.g. submitter) don't seem to
work here.

Otherwise, send mail to the control server, [e-mail].
At the start of the message body, supply the desired commands, one per
line:

http://debbugs.gnu.org/...

123             # given bug number
123;mbox=yes    # mbox version of given bug
package         # bugs in given package    (don't use "emacs" - too many bugs!)
from:[e-mail]
severity:severity      # all bugs of given severity
tag:tag                # all bugs with given tag

** Usertags

The search interface is not as advanced as for normal tags.  You need
to construct the relevant url yourself rather than just typing in a
search box.  The only piece you really need to add is the "users"
portion, the rest has the same syntax as normal.

**** To find all bugs usertagged by a given email address:

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?users=[e-mail]

(Supposedly, the "users" field can be a comma-separated list of more

*** To remove a "fixed" mark:
notfixed 123 23.0.60

*** To assign or reassign a bug to a package or list of packages:
reassign 1234 emacs,cc-mode

** To remove spam from the tracker, move it to the `spam' pseudo-package:
reassign 123 spam

** To change the title of a bug:

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The Emacs Bug Tracker can be found at http://debbugs.gnu.org/

* Quick-start guide

This is 95% of all you will ever need to know.

** How do I report a bug?
Use M-x report-emacs-bug, or send mail to [e-mail].
If you want to Cc someone, use an "X-Debbugs-CC" header instead.

* More detailed information

For a list of all bugs, see http://debbugs.gnu.org/db/pa/lemacs.html
This is a static page, updated once a day.  There is also a dynamic
list, generated on request. This accepts various options, eg to see
the most recent bugs:

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?newest=100

Or follow the links on the front page http://debbugs.gnu.org .

** How do I report a bug in Emacs now?
The same way as you always did.  Send mail to [e-mail],
or use M-x report-emacs-bug.

(e.g. [e-mail]), do NOT just use a Cc: header.
Instead, use "X-Debbugs-CC:".  This ensures the Cc address will get a
mail with the bug report number in.  If you do not do this, each reply
in the subsequent discussion will end up creating a new bug.
This is annoying.

(So annoying that a form of message-id tracking has been implemented
to hopefully stop this happening, but it is still better to use X-Debbugs-CC.)

If a new report contains X-Debbugs-CC in the input, this is
converted to a real Cc header in the output.  (See Bug#1720).
It is also merged into the Resent-CC header (see below).

Package: emacs
Version: 23.0.60
Severity: minor

This can also include tags.  Some things (e.g. submitter) don't seem to
work here.

Otherwise, send mail to the control server, [e-mail].
At the start of the message body, supply the desired commands, one per
line:

http://debbugs.gnu.org/...

123             # given bug number
123;mbox=yes    # mbox version of given bug
package         # bugs in given package
from:[e-mail]
severity:severity      # all bugs of given severity
tag:tag                # all bugs with given tag

** Usertags

The search interface is not as advanced as for normal tags.  You need
to construct the relevant url yourself rather than just typing in a
search box.  The only piece you really need to add is the "users"
portion, the rest has the same syntax as normal.

**** To browse bugs by usertag:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=users

**** To find all bugs usertagged by a given email address:

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?users=[e-mail]

(Supposedly, the "users" field can be a comma-separated list of more

*** To remove a "fixed" mark:
notfixed 123 23.0.60

*** To assign or reassign a bug to a package or list of packages:
reassign 1234 emacs

** To remove spam from the tracker, move it to the `spam' pseudo-package:
reassign 123 spam

** To change the title of a bug: