Bug reporting wiki page has incorrect link

[AA]

This page:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

contains this link:

http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/PACKAGENAME/+filebug?no-redirect

which if you replace PACKAGENAME with:

linux-image-5.11.0-41-generic

Leads nowhere useful. Perhaps this part of the wiki could be improved to deal with how to report a bug manually when the package name is apparently not recognized by this link??

Also, I had to create a launchpad account, which then failed to successfully log me in when pushing the "Login to edit this page" link, timing out instead.

[AA (aathan)]

Oh, also the "Report a bug" link at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1956524 just takes you back to the above referenced wiki page, so it's a bit of a circular path when trying to report a bug about the bug page.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report. It seems like you didn't read the wiki page carefully enough, though.

On 2022-01-05 21:37, AA wrote:
> This page:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
>
> contains this link:
>
> http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/PACKAGENAME/+filebug?no-redirect
>
> which if you replace PACKAGENAME with:
>
> linux-image-5.11.0-41-generic
>
> Leads nowhere useful.

Right after the link it says:

"where PACKAGENAME is the name of the source package about which you want to file the bug report."

linux-image-5.11.0-41-generic is a binary package, not a source package. Its source package is "linux", so this URL:

http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+filebug?no-redirect

should work.

> Perhaps this part of the wiki could be improved to
> deal with how to report a bug manually when the package name is
> apparently not recognized by this link??

Your case is not an example of that. ;) But in the very same section of the wiki page as where you found the above link, there is already a link to submit a bug without specifying the source package. (That's an option which should be avoided as far as possible.)

> Also, I had to create a launchpad account, which then failed to
> successfully log me in when pushing the "Login to edit this page" link,
> timing out instead.

Hopefully that was just a temporary problem. Maybe because the account was just created.

On 2022-01-05 21:38, AA wrote:
> Oh, also the "Report a bug" link at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1956524 ...

?? That's the URL to this bug report.

Please let us know if the above explanation is sufficient, or if you still see a need for clarification.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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