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<em>non-free</em>. This is described in another section, <ref id="archive">.
- <sect id="bug-handling">Handling package bugs
+ <sect id="bug-handling">Handling bugs
<p>
-Often as a package maintainer, you find bugs in other packages or else
-have bugs reported to your packages which need to be reassigned. The
-<url id="&url-bts-control;" name="BTS instructions"> can tell you how
-to do this. Some information on filing bugs can be found in <ref
-id="submit-bug">.
+Every developer has to be able to work with the Debian <url name="bug
+tracking system" id="&url-bts;">. This includes knowing how to file bug
+reports properly, how to update them and reorder them, and how to
+process and close them. Some information on filing bugs can be found in
+<ref id="submit-bug">.
+ <p>
+The bug tracking system's features interesting to developers are described
+in the <url id="&url-bts-devel;" name="BTS documentation for developers">.
+This includes closing bugs, sending followup messages, assigning severities,
+tags, marking bugs as forwarded and other issues.
+ <p>
+Operations such as reassigning bugs to other packages, merging separate
+bug reports about the same issue, or reopening bugs when they are
+prematurely closed, are handled using the so-called control mail server.
+All of the commands available in this server are described in the
+<url id="&url-bts-control;" name="BTS control server documentation">.
<sect1 id="bug-monitoring">Monitoring bugs
<p>