Mail servers' reference card Full documentation of the mail servers is available on the WWW, in the files bug-log-mailserver.txt and bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt or by sending the word help to each mailserver. Synopsis of commands available at request * send bugnumber * send-detail bugnumber * index [full] * index-summary by-package * index-summary by-number * index-maint * index maint maintainer * index-packages * index packages package * send-unmatched [this|0] * send-unmatched last|-1 * send-unmatched old|-2 * getinfo filename (see below) * help * refcard * user email * usertag bugnumber [+-=] tag ... * quit|stop|thank...|--... * #... (comment) * debug level List of info files for getinfo * maintainers * override.stable * override.development * override.contrib * override.non-free * override.experimental * override.codeword * pseudo-packages.description * pseudo-packages.maintainers Synopsis of extra commands available at control mailserver * close bugnumber [ fixed-version ] (you must separately tell originator why) * reassign bugnumber package [ version ] * severity bugnumber severity * reopen bugnumber [ originator-address | = | ! ] * found bugnumber [ version ] * notfound bugnumber version * submitter bugnumber originator-address | ! * forwarded bugnumber address * notforwarded bugnumber * owner bugnumber address | ! * noowner bugnumber * retitle bugnumber new-title * clone bugnumber NewID [ new IDs ... ] * merge bugnumber bugnumber ... * forcemerge bugnumber bugnumber ... * unmerge bugnumber * tag bugnumber [+-=] tag ... * block bugnumber by bug ... * unblock bugnumber by bug ... reopen with = or no originator address leaves the originator as the original submitter; ! sets it to you, the person doing the reopen. critical makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break, or causes serious data loss, or introduces a security hole on systems where you install the package. grave makes the package in question unusable or mostly so, or causes data loss, or introduces a security hole allowing access to the accounts of users who use the package. serious in the package maintainer's or release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release. important a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone. normal the default value, for normal bugs. minor a problem which doesn't affect the package's usefulness, and is presumably trivial to fix. wishlist for any feature request, and also for any bugs that are very difficult to fix due to major design considerations. Synopsis of bug submission and followup addresses * nnn[ -submit | ] * nnn-maintonly * nnn-quiet * nnn-forwarded * nnn-request * nnn-submitter * nnn-done * nnn-close * nnn-subscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Other pages: * bug tracking system main contents page. * Full documentation of the request mailserver. * Full documentation of the control mailserver. * Instructions for reporting bugs. * Accessing the bug tracking logs other than by WWW. * Developers' information regarding the bug processing system. * Full list of outstanding and recent bug reports. * Packages with bug reports. * Maintainers of packages with bug reports. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Emacs maintainers . Last modified: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:56:38 UTC Debian bug tracking system Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.