Dear Maintainer,

I'll start with the Debian-specific problem.

* bug 1 (manpage) *
The /man bitlbee/ cmd shows:

  BUGS
    Of course there are bugs. If you find some, please report them at
http://bugs.bitlbee.org/.

Perhaps that should also mention the Debian bug tracker as well?

* bug 2 (upstream bug tracker broken) *
There is also an upstream bug that I was unable to report because the
CAPTCHA for http://bugs.bitlbee.org/ is broken.  I could clearly read
the CAPTCHA but all of my solutions got rejected.  It's very
frustrating b/c I took the time to write out a report not knowing it
would be subject to a CAPTCHA, much less a broken one.  Please also
update the manpage to warn users that http://bugs.bitlbee.org/ does
not support account creation and requires a CAPTCHA.

* bug 3 (manpage) *
Bitlbee saves data to /var/lib/bitlbee by default, which is important
for users to realize when migrating or backing up systems.  Yet this
information is somewhat buried in the documentation for the "-d"
option.  IMO it should be louder, and follow the convention of having
a FILES section in the manpage.

Bug 220 is loosely related.  I don't know what is meant by
"configtime", but that bug report should perhaps be handled together
with this one.

* bug 4 (upstream bug tracker form is out of date) *
I'm using version 3.5.1-1, which is not in the list of this bug reporting form.