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How does one properly submit a bug to the package maintainers?

Asked by Shaggie

Are there specific requirements when submitting a bug to this group to inform them of an issue in the package that they released, such as specific tags, including specific users, etc.?
How long should one wait to expect a response on a bug submission?
Should these issues be submitted elsewhere?

I appreciate any information that is provided to clear things up

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

If you look at the version number of proftpd-dfsg, then you will see that there is no "ubuntu" in the strings (at least for bionic and newer).
This indicates that the package was copied from Debian without any Ubunut-specific modification.
If there is a weakness or bug in these packages, then this should be reported to Debian.

Developer information on Debian:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/proftpd-dfsg

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Shaggie (shaggiecda) said : 		#2

Do you mean this string "1.3.7a+dfsg-12" ?
I honestly have no clue what the letters and additional numbers mean.
From your response, I would guess that the "d" in "dfsg" is for "debian", but cannot fathom what the rest are.
Is that correct?
Is there a document somewhere that specifies how that works?

I do not know how anyone that is not very familiar with that style would grasp that.
Note that I am a bit of a Linux newbie, but have been programming for over 20 years.

I will log my issue to the other site as you have suggested.

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Shaggie (shaggiecda) said (last edit ): 		#3

Oh, I found this, which at least partially explains things:
https://serverfault.com/questions/604541/debian-packages-version-convention

I did not see anything anywhere in the package listings, or in launchpad that refers to this information which would help us lowly users out. 😁

Interesting dsfg = " Debian Free Software Guidelines" which means the software was modified to comply with that.
And apparently the -12 is the Debian revision? Not really sure what that means though.

I honestly had no idea that these packages were built explicitly for Debian (or one brand of Linux), and then essentially ported to Ubuntu or elsewhere.
I wouldn't have thought where it was built would matter that much, however I do now recall that the github site for proftpd has tests for different Linux brands (like Ubuntu, Debian, etc.). If it can be ported, it sounds like it mostly does not matter.

It is unfortunate that each Linux brand seems to have its own bug tracker for packages.

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Shaggie (shaggiecda) said : 		#4

Well this sucks.
I can find no way to report bugs at that site.
They can completely see bugs reports on launchpad.net as they have a link there, but they seem to ignore them.

Apparently I have to either write an email that effectively goes to all of Debian, or I have to use a tool inside of Linux to do it.

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Shaggie (shaggiecda) said (last edit ): 		#5

Well this sucks.
I can find no way to report bugs at that site.
They can completely see bugs reports on launchpad.net as they have a link there, but they seem to ignore them.

Apparently I have to either write an email that effectively goes to all of Debian, or I have to use a tool inside of Linux to do it. I wonder if that tool would even work because I am using Ubuntu, not Debian.

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