It's unclear how to report a bug on a binary package from the distribution homepage

[Brad Bollenbach]

Lex Hider wrote to launchpad-users@ after being seemingly unable to report a bug on konqueror. The standard Ubuntu filebug link:

  https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+filebug

will accept konqueror and convert the binary package name to its source package (kdebase), but Lex didn't find this. He said:

<lex>
I went to:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/
and searched for package konqueror:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+search?text=konqueror

As there was no konqueror in the results I went through to kdebase, and hit
the link "report a bug".
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+filebug
</lex>

There is too much stuff on the distribution homepage, most of it not targeted at goal-driven users, and there's no link to the standard bug filing form.

[LaserJock (laserjock)]

Any more thought on this? The https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+search?text= pages can be a real mess and I often completely miss what I'm looking for, especially for source packages that have a large number of binary packages. KDE packages are a good example. I think the +search?text= pages just try to give too much info at once. Rather than listing every binary package for every release for every source package match, how about something like:

(for https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+search?text=qt4-designer )

Source Package Matches:

  * [qt4-11] in Ubuntu builds binary package [qt4-designer]
      [gutsy] [feisty] [edgy] [dapper] [breezy]

  * [qt4-11-kdecopy] in Ubuntu builds binary package [qt4-designer-kdecopy]
      [gutsy] [feisty] [edgy]

  * [qtractor] in Ubuntu <reason for matching> (I couldn't find why this shows up)
      [gutsy]

[Björn Tillenius (bjornt)]

There is now a big "Report a bug" button on the distribution page, so I consider this bug fixed.