Reporting bugs directly to Launchpad?

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 12:17:23AM +0300, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Patrick Goetz <pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu>wrote:
> > I must have missed some new revision, as I no longer seem to be able to
> > post bugs directly to launchpad.  I go to
> >
> >    https://bugs.launchpad.net/**ubuntu/saucy<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy>
> >
> > and click on "Report a bug" on the top right hand side of the page. Rather
> > than taking me to a bug report screen, this now takes me to an Ubuntu
> > Documentation page (https://help.ubuntu.com/**community/ReportingBugs<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs>
> > ).
> 
> The link for "Report a bug" takes you to
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+filebug which then redirects to
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
> It is obviously some bug or usability change.

This was changed years ago, with the aim of encouraging people to use
the ubuntu-bug tool.  There's documentation buried in ReportingBugs for
the rare cases where ubuntu-bug can't be used for whatever reason, but
if it's at all possible for you to use ubuntu-bug which attaches more
information for us, please do.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]