General Configuration¶

email_domain $gEmailDomain

The email domain of the bts

list_domain $gListDomain

The list domain of the bts, defaults to the email domain

web_host $gWebHost

The web host of the bts; defaults to the email domain

web_host_bug_dir $gWebHostDir

The directory of the web host on which bugs are kept, defaults to ''

web_domain $gWebDomain

Full path of the web domain where bugs are kept, defaults to the concatenation of "web_host" and "web_host_bug_dir"

html_suffix $gHTMLSuffix

Suffix of html pages, defaults to .html

cgi_domain $gCGIDomain

Full path of the web domain where cgi scripts are kept. Defaults to the concatentation of "web_host" and cgi.

mirrors @gMirrors

List of mirrors [What these mirrors are used for, no one knows.]

package_pages $gPackagePages

Domain where the package pages are kept; links should work in a package_pages/foopackage manner. Defaults to undef, which means that package links will not be made.

package_pages $gUsertagPackageDomain

Domain where where usertags of packages belong; defaults to $gPackagePages

subscription_domain $gSubscriptionDomain

Domain where subscriptions to package lists happen

cve_tracker $gCVETracker

URI to CVE security tracker; in bugreport.cgi, CVE-2001-0002 becomes linked to http://$config{cve_tracker}CVE-2001-002

Default: security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/

Project Identification¶

project $gProject

Name of the project

Default: 'Something'

project_title $gProjectTitle

Name of this install of Debbugs, defaults to ""project" Debbugs Install"

Default: "$config{project} Debbugs Install"

maintainer $gMaintainer

Name of the maintainer of this debbugs install

Default: 'Local DebBugs Owner's

maintainer_webpage $gMaintainerWebpage

Webpage of the maintainer of this install of debbugs

Default: "$config{web_domain}/~owner"

maintainer_email $gMaintainerEmail

Email address of the maintainer of this Debbugs install

Default: 'root@'.$config{email_domain}

unknown_maintainer_email

Email address where packages with an unknown maintainer will be sent

Default: $config{maintainer_email}

machine_name

The name of the machine that this instance of debbugs is running on (currently used for debbuging purposes and web page output.)

Default: qx(hostname --fqdn)

BTS Mailing Lists¶

submit_list

maint_list

forward_list

done_list

request_list

submitter_list

control_list

summary_list

mirror_list

strong_list

bug_subscription_domain

Domain of list for messages regarding a single bug; prefixed with bug=${bugnum}@ when bugs are actually sent out. Set to undef or '' to disable sending messages to the bug subscription list.

Default: list_domain

Misc Options¶

mailer

Name of the mailer to use

Default: exim

bug

Default: bug

ubug

Default: ucfirst($config{bug});

bugs

Default: bugs

ubugs

Default: ucfirst($config{ubugs});

remove_age

Age at which bugs are archived/removed

Default: 28

save_old_bugs

Whether old bugs are saved or deleted

Default: 1

distribution_aliases

Map of distribution aliases to the distribution name

Default:
{experimental => 'experimental', unstable => 'unstable', testing => 'testing', stable => 'stable', oldstable => 'oldstable', sid => 'unstable', lenny => 'testing', etch => 'stable', sarge => 'oldstable', }

distributions

List of valid distributions

Default: The values of the distribution aliases map.

default_architectures

List of default architectures to use when architecture(s) are not specified

Default: i386 amd64 arm ppc sparc alpha

affects_distribution_tags

List of tags which restrict the buggy state to a set of distributions.

The set of distributions that are buggy is the intersection of the set of distributions that would be buggy without reference to these tags and the set of these tags that are distributions which are set on a bug.

Setting this to [] will remove this feature.

Default: @{$config{distributions}}

removal_unremovable_tags

Bugs which have these tags set cannot be archived

Default: []

removal_distribution_tags

Tags which specifiy distributions to check

Default: @{$config{distributions}}

removal_default_distribution_tags

For removal/archival purposes, all bugs are assumed to have these tags set.

Default: qw(unstable testing);

removal_strong_severity_default_distribution_tags

For removal/archival purposes, all bugs with strong severity are assumed to have these tags set.

Default: qw(unstable testing stable);

removal_architectures

For removal/archival purposes, these architectures are consulted if there is more than one architecture applicable. If the bug is in a package not in any of these architectures, the architecture actually checked is undefined.

Default: value of default_architectures

package_name_re

The regex which will match a package name

Default: '[a-z0-9][a-z0-9\.+-]+'

package_version_re

The regex which will match a package version

Default: '[A-Za-z0-9:+\.-]+'

default_package

This is the name of the default package. If set, bugs assigned to packages without a maintainer and bugs missing a Package: psuedoheader will be assigned to this package instead.

Defaults to unset, which is the traditional debbugs behavoir

control_internal_requester

This address is used by Debbugs::Control as the request address which sent a control request for faked log messages.

Default:"Debbugs Internal Request <$config{maintainer_email}>"

control_internal_request_addr

This address is used by Debbugs::Control as the address to which a faked log message request was sent.

Default: "internal_control\@$config{email_domain}";

exclude_from_control

Addresses which are not allowed to send messages to control

default_severity

The default severity of bugs which have no severity set

Default: normal

severity_display

A hashref of severities and the informative text which describes them.

Default:

 {critical => "Critical $config{bugs}",
  grave    => "Grave $config{bugs}",
  normal   => "Normal $config{bugs}",
  wishlist => "Wishlist $config{bugs}",
 }
    

show_severities

A scalar list of the severities to show

Defaults to the concatenation of the keys of the severity_display hashlist with ', ' above.

strong_severities

An arrayref of the serious severities which shoud be emphasized

Default: [qw(critical grave)]

severity_list

An arrayref of a list of the severities

Defaults to the keys of the severity display hashref

obsolete_severities

A hashref of obsolete severities with the replacing severity

Default: {}

tags

An arrayref of the tags used

Default: [qw(patch wontfix moreinfo unreproducible fixed)] and also includes the distributions.

usertag_dir

Directory which contains the usertags

Default: $config{spool_dir}/user

template_dir

directory of templates; defaults to /usr/share/debbugs/templates.

simple_versioning

If true this causes debbugs to ignore version information and just look at whether a bug is done or not done. Primarily of interest for debbugs installs which don't track versions. defaults to false.

version_packages_dir

Location where the version package information is kept; defaults to spool_dir/../versions/pkg

version_time_index

Location of the version/time index file. Defaults to spool_dir/../versions/idx/versions_time.idx if spool_dir/../versions exists; otherwise defaults to undef.

version_index

Location of the version index file. Defaults to spool_dir/../versions/indices/versions.idx if spool_dir/../versions exists; otherwise defaults to undef.

binary_source_map

Location of the binary -> source map. Defaults to spool_dir/../versions/indices/bin2src.idx if spool_dir/../versions exists; otherwise defaults to undef.

source_binary_map

Location of the source -> binary map. Defaults to spool_dir/../versions/indices/src2bin.idx if spool_dir/../versions exists; otherwise defaults to undef.

sendmail

Sets the sendmail binary to execute; defaults to /usr/lib/sendmail

sendmail_arguments

Default arguments to pass to sendmail. Defaults to "qw(-oem -oi)".

spam_scan

Whether or not spamscan is being used; defaults to 0 (not being used

spam_crossassassin_db

Location of the crosassassin database, defaults to spool_dir/../CrossAssassinDb

spam_max_cross

Maximum number of cross-posted messages

spam_spams_per_thread

Number of spams for each thread (on average). Defaults to 200

spam_max_threads

Maximum number of threads to start. Defaults to 20

spam_keep_running

Maximum number of seconds to run without restarting. Defaults to 3600.

spam_mailbox

Location to store spam messages; is run through strftime to allow for %d,%m,%Y, et al. Defaults to 'spool_dir/../mail/spam/assassinated.%Y-%m-%d'

spam_crossassassin_mailbox

Location to store crossassassinated messages; is run through strftime to allow for %d,%m,%Y, et al. Defaults to 'spool_dir/../mail/spam/crossassassinated.%Y-%m-%d'

spam_local_tests_only

Whether only local tests are run, defaults to 0

spam_user_prefs

User preferences for spamassassin, defaults to $ENV{HOME}/.spamassassin/user_prefs

spam_rules_dir

Site rules directory for spamassassin, defaults to '/usr/share/spamassassin'

Text Fields¶

The following are the only text fields in general use in the scripts; a few additional text fields are defined in text.in, but are only used in db2html and a few other specialty scripts.

Earlier versions of debbugs defined these values in /etc/debbugs/text, but now they are required to be in the configuration file. [Eventually the longer ones will move out into a fully fledged template system.]

bad_email_prefix

This prefixes the text of all lines in a bad e-mail message ack.

text_instructions

This gives more information about bad e-mails to receive.in

html_tail

This shows up at the end of (most) html pages

In many pages this has been replaced by the html/tail template.

html_expire_note

This message explains what happens to archive/remove-able bugs