Thanks to all

At one time I saw a post on some form somewhere asking this question. How do I find out what bugs are logged/filed against the packages I have installed? I know I can check them one at a time in the tracking system but that would take a very long time. I do have apt-listbugs installed and don't normally install packages that have bugs listed that I think are going to cause serious problem in the programs I use. That still doesn't tell me what bugs I may have installed before I installed apt-listbugs.

Having looked a the man page for apt-listbugs I see that if I were to run where 'package.file' is a file containing the names and versions of the packages installed in my system I should get the info I am looking for.

How do I generate this 'package.file'?

There is an app in the "debian-goodies" package called popbugs. It's supposed to do what you want based on info from popularity contest (which you have to be running).

I think it works, but it's a little tricky to understand, and I'm not positive it only includes programs you have installed.

I ran it like this, ... # popbugs | grep T

... and it gave me a list that seemed to include only applications with open bugs in Lenny. Check it out.

Thanks rickh

I ran that same code but it didn't list the bugs listed against my kernel 2.6.21 My understanding from the html page that came up, that the listing contains packages from all the branches of debian.

Thanks for showing me a starting place.