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manual: contributing: minor rewording of 'reporting bugs' section

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This patch makes some minor fixes in the section about reporting bugs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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Thomas De Schampheleire 2014-03-06 11:07:34 +01:00 committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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@ -274,16 +274,16 @@ $ git format-patch --subject-prefix "PATCH v4" \
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[[reporting-bugs]]
Reporting issues/bugs, get help
-------------------------------
Reporting issues/bugs or getting help
-------------------------------------
Before reporting any issue, please check
xref:mailing-list-subscribe[the mailing list archive] in case someone has
already reported and fixed a similar problem.
However you choose to report bugs or get help,
xref:bugtracker[opening a bug] or
xref:mailing-list-subscribe[send a mail to the mailing list], there are
However you choose to report bugs or get help, either by
xref:bugtracker[opening a bug] or by
xref:mailing-list-subscribe[sending a mail to the mailing list], there are
a number of details to provide in order to help people reproduce and
find a solution to the issue.
@ -295,11 +295,16 @@ Here is a short list of details to provide in such case:
* host machine (OS/release)
* version of Buildroot
* target for which the build fails
* package(s) which the build fails
* package(s) for which the build fails
* the command that fails and its output
* any information you think that may be relevant
Additionnally, your can add the +.config+ file.
Additionally, you should add the +.config+ file (or if you know how, a
+defconfig+).
If some of these details are too large, do not hesitate to use a
pastebin service (see http://www.similarsitesearch.com/alternatives-to/pastebin.com[]).
pastebin service. Note that not all available pastebin services will
preserve Unix-style line terminators when downloading raw pastes.
Following pastebin services are known to work correctly:
- https://gist.github.com/
- http://code.bulix.org/