Debian bug tracking system

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The Debian bug tracking system, or Debbugs, is the bug tracking system used by the Debian project. It was mainly written by Ian Jackson, the Debian project leader from January 1998 – December 1998.

It consists of a set of scripts which maintain a database of problem reports. Most of the source code is written in Perl.

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All input and manipulation of reports is done by email; developers do not need on-line web access or accounts on the host system.
Outstanding, recently closed and other listings of reports are made available via a webserver, and by an email request bot.
Each report has a separate e-mail address for submission of additional information.
Web listings of bugs can be mirrored by e-mail or HTTP.
Core functions do not require CGI scripts.

As of January 1997, the Debian Project's instance of debbugs had handled 16000 reports over the past 3-4 years, and had a database of 5000 reports totalling 90Mb.

The scripts have been parameterised so that they can be used for other projects besides Debian. The system runs on Unix-like operating systems such as Unix and Linux.

Debbugs is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License.