Bug#742986: Using reportbug

[Frank Stachyra]

The HOWTO at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting is anything but clear to somebody who does not know how to use reportbug and is not adept at using a linux terminal.

Maybe
 debian maintainers do not want bug reports from beginners, and 
deliberately makes using reportbug quite impossible to someone who does 
not already know how to use it.

Assuming otherwise:
as a beginner, I have no problem using reportbug, through its interactive prompts, until I have completed all of them.

Then,
 reportbug offers not the remotest clue what to do next, to actually 
send the report. The result is that I have a fully completed bug report,
 with no apparent way to cause it to go to anybody who should get it.

There is no prompt to complete and send the file, which appears to be written to /tmp, from where it will never go anywhere without more being done to make that happen.
The
 apparent list of commands at the bottom of the page (e.g., ^G for Get 
Help, ^X for Exit, ^etc, etc) produce no result when typed in, except 
that they appear as text.
There is no apparent way to enter anything but text; i.e., no way to enter a command that might send the report on its way.

Surely
 there is a way to do this that might be made more readily apparent to 
anybody who has never used reportbug, and is not adept at using linux 
terminals.

FS

> From: owner at bugs.debian.org
> To: frankstachyra at hotmail.com
> Subject: Bug#742986: Acknowledgement (gnome: fails to load on first boot after wheezy install)
> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:45:07 +0000
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