On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 03:12:49PM -0800, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote:
I also imagine you are paying the debian volunteers for their time to help you with a bug you are hitting. You are joining a community, and it would be great to respect the rules and processes that community follows. Seriously, this is a volunteer effort people are involved in.
FWIW, reportbug is *NOT* monitoring your system. It is just populating your bug report with almost everything the maintainer would ask you up first. Such as, are you on the latest package? Can you test with the latest package? Has your bug already been reported? If so, can we add to that report? Are you running the originally shipped package or doing something custom?
Yes the debian bug reporting is a script collecting info. It can send it directly as an email, if email sending is configured on your system, or it can save it as a file you can send from an email client by yourself, and of course being a text file you can read what it in it before sending it. -- Len Sorensen