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Methods of accessing the bug tracking system logs
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Accessing active bug reports
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Each message received at or sent by the bug processing system is
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logged and made available in a number of ways.
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The primary access method is to use the web pages. See the forms on
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the main BTS page at http://bugs.debian.org/
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There is a mailserver which can send bug reports as plain text on
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request. To use it send the word help as the sole contents of an email
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to request@bugs.debian.org (the Subject of the message is ignored), or
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read the instructions on the World Wide Web or in the file
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bug-log-mailserver.txt.
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Accessing archived bug reports
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Each closed bug report is archived 28 days after the last message
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relating to it is received and filed. This means that it is no longer
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possible to access it or change anything about it using the control
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and service bots. However, the reports are still accessible for
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viewing.
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You can search the bug report archive using the WWW forms at
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http://bugs.debian.org/, simply select the "archived bugs" option.
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Note that it doesn't contain the oldest closed bug reports, only those
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after #40000, approximately.
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Accessing the raw bug data
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If you need to get hold of the raw data used by the bug tracking
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system, you can mirror it using rsync from bugs-mirror.debian.org. The
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relevant modules are bts-spool-db (for the active bug spool),
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bts-spool-archive (for bugs that have been closed for a while and thus
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archived), and bts-spool-index (for the bug index files).
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At the time of writing, the active spool is about 2.5GB and the
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archived spool is about 10GB. If you only need a sample for testing
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purposes, please consider downloading only part of the active spool
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rather than the whole thing.
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Please do not rely on *.status files in the bug spools, as they are
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obsolete, for compatibility purposes only, and will be removed at some
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point in the future. Use the *.summary files instead.
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_________________________________________________________________
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Debian BTS administrators <owner@bugs.debian.org>
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Debian bug tracking system
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Copyright <20> 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997, 2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd,
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1994-1997 Ian Jackson.
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_________________________________________________________________
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