Debian bug tracking system

Debian has a bug tracking system (BTS) in which we file details of bugs reported by users and developers. Each bug is given a number, and is kept on file until it is marked as having been dealt with.

How to report a bug in Debian

A separate page has instructions and tips on how to report a bug if you encounter problems in the Debian distribution.

Bug tracking system documentation

Viewing bug reports on the WWW

Find a bug by number:

Find bugs by: package source package maintainer email submitter email severity tag
What to search for:

Additional settings (which you may leave untouched, the defaults will work):

Flags: active bugs archived bugs
display merged bugs only once no ordering by status or severity
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Package version:
Distribution: oldstable stable proposed-updates testing testing-proposed-updates unstable experimental
Reverse order of: status severities bugs
Include status: open forwarded pending fixed done
Exclude status: open forwarded pending fixed done
Include severity: critical grave serious important normal minor wishlist fixed
Exclude severity: critical grave serious important normal minor wishlist fixed
Include tag: potato woody sarge sarge-ignore etch etch-ignore lenny lenny-ignore sid experimental confirmed d-i fixed fixed-in-experimental fixed-upstream help l10n moreinfo patch pending security unreproducible upstream wontfix ipv6 lfs
Exclude tag: potato woody sarge sarge-ignore etch etch-ignore lenny lenny-ignore sid experimental confirmed d-i fixed fixed-in-experimental fixed-upstream help l10n moreinfo patch pending security unreproducible upstream wontfix ipv6 lfs

The above queries can also be made by visiting URLs of the following forms, respectively:

http://bugs.debian.org/number
http://bugs.debian.org/mbox:number
http://bugs.debian.org/package
http://bugs.debian.org/src:sourcepackage
http://bugs.debian.org/maintainer@email.address
http://bugs.debian.org/from:submitter@email.address
http://bugs.debian.org/severity:severity
http://bugs.debian.org/tag:tag

Searching bug reports

You can search bug reports using our HyperEstraier based search engine.

Another way to search bug reports is to use Google Groups. The period to be searched can be limited by using the advanced search option.

Alternative sites that allow searching for bug reports are Gmane and The Mail Archive.

Supplementary information

The current list of Release Critical Bugs.

The current list of pseudo-packages recognized by the Debian bug tracking system.

The following bug report indices are available:

Packages with active and archived bug reports.
Source packages with active and archived bug reports.
Maintainers of packages with active and archived bug reports.
Submitters of active and archived bug reports.

Note: some of the previously available indices of bug reports aren't available due to internal problems with the program that generated them. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Debian BTS administrators <owner@bugs.debian.org>

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Last Modified: Sun, Jul 27 03:30:41 UTC 2008