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<h2 class="chapter">19 Reporting Bugs</h2>
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<p>Your bug reports play an essential role in making the binary utilities
reliable.
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<p>Reporting a bug may help you by bringing a solution to your problem, or
it may not. But in any case the principal function of a bug report is
to help the entire community by making the next version of the binary
utilities work better. Bug reports are your contribution to their
maintenance.
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<p>In order for a bug report to serve its purpose, you must include the
information that enables us to fix the bug.
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