# Whatis A Useful Bug Report?
## What Is A Bug Report?
A bug report is a set of descriptive, easy to follow
instructions(!) that let others reproduce a strange
behaviour or an error.
If it does that it is perfect(ly) enough.
## What Does A Bug Report Need?
1. A short, comprehensible, topic related **subject line**.
2. A description of your **expectation**.
3. A description of your **experience**.
4. A recipe to reproduce your steps.
## HOWTO
### Ask yourself:
* What did you expect to happen?
* What did happen instead?
* How can others do what you did in order to encounter the bug?
* Finally: what's the shortest, descriptive subject line?
Write everything down. If you know how, use plain text e-mail.
### Add
* Name and version of your operating system,
* Name and version of the program/application you used,
* Output of
* dmesg,
* lspci -vv,
* lsusb.
* Logfiles.