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Some more pointless updates.

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Resent-To:   [e-mail]
Resent-CC:   maintainer email address, plus any X-Debbugs-CC: entries

The "maintainer email address" is "[e-mail]" in most cases.

They also have:

Reply-To: bug submitter, [e-mail]
Mail-Followup-To: bug submitter, [e-mail]

** To not get acknowledgement mail from the tracker,
add an "X-Debbugs-No-Ack:" header (with any value).  If you use Gnus,
you can add an element to gnus-posting-styles to do this automatically, eg:

reopen 123

*** Bugs can be tagged in various ways (eg wontfix, patch, etc).
The available tags are:
patch wontfix moreinfo unreproducible fixed notabug
Note that the list at http://debbugs.gnu.org/Developer#tags
is incorrect, at least for Emacs.
The list of tags can be prefixed with +, - or =, meaning to add (the
default), remove, or reset the tags. E.g.:

tags 123 + wontfix

** Usertags

See <http://wiki.debian.org/bugs.debian.org/usertags>

** The web-page with the list of bugs is slow to load

It's a function of the number of displayed bugs.  You can speed things
up by only looking at the newest 100 bugs:

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?newest=100;package=emacs

The above page is accessible from the "Options" section at the end of
the "main list of bugs" page. Select bugs "in package" = emacs;
"newest bugs" = 100.  (I have no idea how you get to that Options
section without having to go through the bug list page first...)

** Mails to the bug tracker disappear

Apparently it has some kind of spam filter that sometimes silently
discards valid mails. Adding a subject (pointless in control messages)
may help.

** ChangeLog issues

*** When you fix a bug, it can be helpful to put the bug number in the
ChangeLog entry, for example:

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Resent-To:   [e-mail]
Resent-CC:   maintainer email address, plus any X-Debbugs-CC: entries

The "maintainer email address" is "[e-mail]" in most cases.

A new report also has:

Mail-Followup-To: bug submitter, [e-mail]

** To not get acknowledgement mail from the tracker,
add an "X-Debbugs-No-Ack:" header (with any value).  If you use Gnus,
you can add an element to gnus-posting-styles to do this automatically, eg:

reopen 123

*** Bugs can be tagged in various ways (eg wontfix, patch, etc).
The available tags are:
patch wontfix moreinfo unreproducible fixed notabug
See http://debbugs.gnu.org/Developer#tags
The list of tags can be prefixed with +, - or =, meaning to add (the
default), remove, or reset the tags. E.g.:

tags 123 + wontfix

** URL shortcuts

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

See <http://wiki.debian.org/bugs.debian.org/usertags>

** The web-page with the list of bugs is slow to load

It's a function of the number of displayed bugs.  You can speed things
up by only looking at the newest 100 bugs:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?newest=100;package=emacs

Or use the static index:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/db/ix/full.html

** ChangeLog issues

*** When you fix a bug, it can be helpful to put the bug number in the
ChangeLog entry, for example: