My confusion here is that I was expecting a web page with an html form on which I could report a bug. Apparently that is not the debian way.
Did you really read the page, and some of the links it has ?
No, there is not a "form", but you can use:
https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/reportbug
reportbug is designed to be used on systems with an installed mail transport agent, like exim or sendmail; however, you can edit the configuration file and send reports using any available mail server.
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They also show a example , it could be used as a template, :
FRom:
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
An Example Bug Report
A bug report with header and pseudo-header looks something like this:
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To: submit@bugs.debian.org
From: diligent@testing.linux.org
Subject: Hello says `goodbye'
Package: hello
Version: 1.3-16
When I invoke `hello' without arguments from an ordinary shell
prompt it prints `goodbye', rather than the expected `hello, world'.
Here is a transcript:
$ hello
goodbye
$ /usr/bin/hello
goodbye
$
I suggest that the output string, in hello.c, be corrected.
I am using Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, kernel 2.2.17-pre-patch-13
and libc6 2.1.3-10.
It is much better if you use the "reportbug" package, I and the wiki mention.
If you do make a big report, please give them better information then you are giving here, ..
----snip---and re-install the debian versions. I regret to say that did not fix my problem.
What versions, exactly, package names ?, etc.....
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I do have reportbug installed, and it worked quite well when I used it, in fact I would run it, using the package name of what you installed, and see if there are other bug reports filed, but since you have conveniently neglected to give the actual names of the debian packages , versions you reinstalled, guess what ?, Can't help you.
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garry@debian:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release: 10
Codename: buster
garry@debian:~$ reportbug
Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or type
'other' to report a more general problem. If you don't know what package the bug
is in, please contact debian-user@lists.debian.org for assistance.
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So let me try with the one 4D696B65 posted:
Just to demonstrate, "reportbug" works.
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garry@debian:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release: 10
Codename: buster
garry@debian:~$ reportbug
Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or type
'other' to report a more general problem. If you don't know what package the bug
is in, please contact debian-user@lists.debian.org for assistance.
> libcdio18 (2.0.0-2)
libcdio18 (2.0.0-2) is not a valid package name.
Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or type
'other' to report a more general problem. If you don't know what package the bug
is in, please contact debian-user@lists.debian.org for assistance.
> libcdio18
*** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. ***
Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter).
Detected character set: UTF-8
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.
Using 'Bryan <myemail@mungedit.nowhere>' as your from address.
Getting status for libcdio18...
Checking for newer versions at madison...
Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
Querying Debian BTS for reports on libcdio (source)...
8 bug reports found:
Bugs with severity important
1) #597730 Symbol conflict with libcdio10
2) #891638 libcdio: CVE-2017-18201: double free inget_cdtext_generic() in lib/d
Bugs with severity normal
3) #774267 libiso9660-8: segmentation fault
4) #887640 SIGSEGVs in libcdio: double free or corruption
5) #888053 libcdio-utils: cd-paranoia is absent from deb package at version 1.0
6) #897327 libcdio-dev claims to be Multi-Arch: same but is not
Bugs with severity wishlist
7) #703292 missing C++ libs, provides amount of time ago and missing in debian
8) #749138 Conflicting return types of functions cdio_generic_read_form1_sector
(7-8/8) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|e|?]? n
Maintainer for libcdio18 is 'Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>'.
This package seems to be currently "orphaned"; it also seems you're a bit
interested in this package, since you're reporting a bug against it, so you might
consider being involved in the package maintenance in Debian and/or adopting it.
Please be aware that your report may not be resolved for a while, because the
package seems to lack an active maintainer, but please GO ON and REPORT the bug,
if there is one. For more details, please see: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
Looking up dependencies of libcdio18...
Briefly describe the problem (max. 100 characters allowed). This will be the bug
email subject, so keep the summary as concise as possible, for example: "fails to
send email" or "does not start with -q option specified" (enter Ctrl+c to exit
reportbug without reporting a bug).
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reportbug: exiting due to user interrupt.
garry@debian:~$
I exited since I do not have the information needed, and it really is intended for the person reporting the bug, you are the only one that can give the details requested,....
When you install reportbug, you get a configuration script, that is used to set it up for your e-mail, etc,... if you can not send e-mail from your PC there is options for that, and it saves the report to a file that you can send in a e-mail. Pretty simple really.