Reporting Bugs (Stow)

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## 14 Reporting Bugs

Please send bug reports to the current maintainers by electronic mail. The address to use is ‘`<bug-stow@gnu.org>`’. Please include:

- the version number of Stow (‘`stow --version`’);
- the version number of Perl (‘`perl -v`’);
- the system information, which can often be obtained with ‘`uname -a`’;
- a description of the bug;
- the precise command you gave;
- the output from the command (preferably verbose output, obtained by adding ‘`--verbose=3`’ to the Stow command line).

If you are really keen, consider developing a minimal test case and creating a new test. See the `t/` directory in the source for lots of examples.

Before reporting a bug, please read the manual carefully, especially Known Bugs, to see whether you’re encountering something that doesn’t need reporting. (see Conflicts).