On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:06 -0400, Holger Levsen wrote: [...] > And then there is the (nowadays perceived) problem that reportbug needs a > working MTA setup or at least outgoing traffic on port 25/587. Both ports are > blocked on almost all my machines, so I still have not much bothered with > reportbug. (I'd use it for when a maintainer tells me to use it as it will > collect some information automatically, but thats it.)
Given that you know the benefit of reportbug to maintainers receiving bug reports, this really is quite selfish behaviour. > reportbug-ng works well on my laptop (but it's not in lenny, so no cookie for > me (as someday I stopped backporting it)), but most of my systems dont have a > GUI neither. > > So, to summarize: a.) I still think reportbug should be able to submit bugs > using port 80 Agreed. > and b.) IMHO reportbug-ng should be installed by the default > desktop task. Yes, if it supports bug scripts properly now. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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