Debbug...greport(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Debbugs::CGI::Bugreport — bestie, this is the (3pm) perl module that holds the specific routines for the bugreport cgi script. Like, it's not the whole show, it's the little backstage crew that makes the bugreport CGI go ✨.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so lowkey there is no synopsis here — the original page just... has the heading and nothing under it. Not a single line, not a crumb. We're moving on, bestie, nothing to see 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Same situation, no cap. The page has a DESCRIPTION heading and then... silence. Absolute iconique minimalism 🎀. The actual tea is all in the subsections below, so scroll down, gorgeous.

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🦋 BUGS 🦋

None known. 😭 Periodt, that's what it says. Zero bugs on the radar. A flawless queen, allegedly. (iykyk to always take that with a grain of salt, but that's what the page says fr fr 🫶)

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🎀 display_entity 🎀

display_entity(entity      => $entity,
               bug_num     => $ref,
               outer       => 1,
               msg_num     => $msg_num,
               attachments => \@attachments,
               output      => \$output);

So this one is all about the args, and here's the rundown bestie:

• entity — a MIME::Parser entity. Yeah, the MIME one. That's the whole vibe.
• bug_num — the Bug number. Literally just the number of the bug.
• outer — whether this is the outer entity. It defaults to 1, so if you say nothing, you get outer. Main character energy by default 💅
• msg_num — message number in the log.
• attachments — an arrayref of attachments. Like, the little goodies riding along 🍓
• output — a scalar reference for output.

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🌈 handle_email_message 🌈

handle_email_message($record->{text},
                     ref        => $bug_number,
                     msg_num => $msg_number,
                    );

What it does: returns a decoded e-mail message and displays entities/attachments as appropriate. That's it, that's the job description — decode it, show the bits that need showing, serve the look 💖

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👑 handle_record 👑

push @log, handle_record($record,$ref,$msg_num);

The lore: this deals with a record in a bug log as returned by Debbugs::Log::read_log_records, and it returns the log information that should be output to the browser. So it takes your log record, does its little era of processing, and hands back exactly what the browser deserves to see 🌈✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 🫶

This gorgeous thing is perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-04-27 — coming to you from the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the universe. Slay, stay decoded, and don't forget to check your entities 💅🎀