What tools exist to report bugs

Posted by Luis Alvarado on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Luis Alvarado
Published on 2012-10-03T20:45:28Z Indexed on 2012/10/03 21:55 UTC
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As of today I only knew about ubuntu-bug which I could use to report bugs about a specific program. But now I learned about apport-collect and apport-bug which basically are:

apport-bug - Reports problems to launchpad using Apport to collect a lot of information about your system to help the developers fix the problem and avoid unnecessary questions and answers.

apport-collect - Works as apport-bug but it send the information to an already existing bug report. In my case it was apport-collect 1060268 Thanks to Brad Figg in Launchpad.

Are there any other tools to report bugs?

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