My understanding is that I should report a bug in the development section.
Specifically I want to report a bug with the fpc package.
I thought that developement/other was probably the right place.
However when I try to create a topic in there I get a kind of “no entry” sign.
It seems that I don’t have the privileges or have misunderstood something.
What can I do please?
ok that didn’t work
" Closed by Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Wednesday, 30 March 2022, 16:54 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: This is not the Manjaro bug tracker"
As hinted by the category description, the Manjaro-Development category is not for support:
This section is for developers only, join in and get involved.
The entry category for support is, well, Support.
I am only going by what it said here
secondly
My system is working now. I have fixed it. I don’t need support.
What I want to do is to report what I found as a bug so that other people won’t need to do what I did to make it work.
Manjaro does have a bug tracker, though (logically) only for the tools they develop. fpc not being developed by Manjaro – nor Arch – it is at the original developers’ you need to report.
Reading the issue you opened at Arch, the forum where you found your workaround seems like the right place. The post even contains a link to the associated bug tracker.
I checkout this information:
pacman -Sii fpc | egrep '^URL|^Package'If a user is using the Manjaro distribution, imho, it is always okay to report it in the Manjaro forum. Use the Category: Support. You may be directed to report an Issue on Manjaro’s gitlab or on the software’s website.
Some issues are clearly the software’s problem, and not related to the distribution. I list the software and visit the URL, and then checkout their support, bug database/issues, and forum. This way you can come back to the Manjaro forum and use this information to describe the problem. I see that is exactly what you did. 
If you want to let Manjaro users know of a solution to a problem, I believe that could go in one of two places.
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Category: Support
Use a good title.
Mark it solved -
Although, the better spot would be, Category: Contribution > Tutorials
The first line of the “About the Tutorials category” is:
Tutorials are member-contributed posts that describe how to achieve something with Manjaro.
This is a question I’ve had as well. I was hoping to find something similar to Debian’s reportbug tool. There seems to be no such equivalent script for Manjaro users. And the site https://bugs.manjaro.org just appears to be full of advertisements (in contrast to Debian’s site https://bugs.debian.org which actually lists bugs).
Well, I guess that is what it is. Seems I’ll have to fish around for various locations to make bug reports. The reason I was interested is that I’m not a programmer myself, but I do wish to contribute to the effort to create a usable Linux phone. And thus, I bought a Pinephone Pro with the intent of giving feedback (via bug reports and whatnot) to the heroic developers of the Manjaro-ARM KDE Plasma OS (going with this since it seems to be the default that Pine64 settled on).