| Original author(s) | Ian Jackson |
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| Initial release | 1994; 31 years ago (1994)[1] |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Perl, others |
| Operating system | Debian |
| Platform | Linux |
| Type | Issue tracking system |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www |
Debbugs is the software powering theDebian project'sissue tracking system. Uniquely[citation needed] it doesn't have any form of web-interface to edit bug reports – all modification is done through email. Debbugs was mainly written byIan Jackson, former Debian project leader.
Debbugs consists of a set ofscripts which maintain adatabase of problem reports. The scripts have beenparameterised so that they can be used for other projects besides Debian. The system runs onUnix-likeoperating systems such asUnix andLinux. Most of thesource code is written inPerl. It isfree software, licensed under theGNU General Public License.
It is strongly recommended[3] that people use thereportbug program when reporting bugs in Debian.
Debbugs started as a rudimentary issue tracking system in 1994.[1] The software was generalized starting from 1997 but was only officially released as Debbugs 1 in January 1999.[4]
Soon after theGNOME project abandoned Debbugs, theKDE project also switched toBugzilla in 2002.[5]
The oldest and largest deployment of Debbugs is the Debian project's.[6] As of March 2018[update], the Debian debbugs instance had handled over 890,000 bug reports.[7]
TheGNU Project has deployed a public instance of debbugs[8] that can be used by GNU software orGNU Savannah-hosted free software.[9]
Ubuntu'sLaunchpad recognizes and integrates with Debian's debbugs instance.[10]
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