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Emacs bug tracking system

Emacs 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 Emacs

Bug tracking system documentation

• Advanced information on how to use the system
• Information on manipulating bugs by email
• Mailservers' reference card
• Ways of accessing the bug report logs
• Requesting bug reports by email

Viewing bug reports on the WWW

Jump directly to the main list of bugs

Find a bug by number:

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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
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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://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/number
• http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/mbox:number
• http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/package
• http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/src:sourcepackage
• http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/maintainer@email.address
• http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/from:submitter@email.address
• http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/severity:severity
• http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/tag:tag

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.

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Emacs BTS administrators <owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>

Debian bug tracking system
Copyright © 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997, 2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-1997 Ian Jackson.

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