The Debian bug tracking system, or Debbugs, is the bug tracking system used by the Debian project. Its unique feature is that it doesn't have any form of web-interface to edit bug reports - all modification is done through email. Debbugs was mainly written by Ian Jackson, former Debian project leader, from January 1998 to 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.
It is strongly recommended that people use the reportbug program, when reporting bugs in Debian.
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