Config...ontrol(3pm)

📦
version 3.026 · 6 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

Config::Model::models::Dpkg::BugFiles::Control — bestie, it's a Configuration class, and its whole government name is Dpkg::BugFiles::Control. Yes the filename got cut off mid-word, it's giving mysterious, we love that for it. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So these are Configuration classes used by Config::Model. That's the vibe. That's the whole vibe. Now let's get into the actual elements because this is where it gets juicy. 🦋

🌸 Elements 🌸

🍓 report-with

okay so picture this: programs are often distributed across several different packages. Like, an upstream package 'foo' might get packaged in Debian as foo, libfoo, foo-common and foo-data. (Four whole packages. The audacity. 😭)

In cases like that it can be useful to include related package information in bugreports — it minimises the need for 'moreinfo' requests to the submitter :) and honestly, respecting the submitter's time is iconic behaviour.

You do this by adding a "report-with" header to the control file, like so:

report-with: foo libfoo foo-common foo-data

Package information will be added to the bug report for each extra package listed. Slay.

See README.developers at https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reportbug/reportbug.git/tree/doc/README.developers for the details, bestie.

Optional. Type uniline.

🦋 package-status

This one is a request! You're asking that the status information for other packages — specifically ones that are not dependencies or recommendations — be included with the report. No cap.

See README.developers at https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reportbug/reportbug.git/tree/doc/README.developers for details.

Optional. Type uniline.

👑 Submit-As

okay so the package maintainer gets to control which packages bug reports are submitted to, by setting the Package: field of the bug report. Main character energy, honestly.

This will be mainly used to redirect bugs in packages coming from a single source to where the maintainer likes to have them. Lowkey genius.

See README.developers at https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reportbug/reportbug.git/tree/doc/README.developers for details.

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 Send-To

Packages that are not distributed by Debian can also take advantage of the reportbug utility with this parameter. For instance:

Send-To: bugs.myproject.com

reportbug will add submit@, quiet@ or maintonly@ to form the address the bug report mail is send to. (Sending? Sending. Anyway. 💅)

⚠️ Note, bestie: you probably should use dpkg's support for Origin and Bugs tags in lieu of this support.

See README.developers at https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reportbug/reportbug.git/tree/doc/README.developers for details.

Optional. Type uniline.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • cme

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate 🫶 this was Config...ontrol(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew, running on perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-30. mwah, go read some docs, ily 💖✨

📦 where this page comes from