Your message dated Wed, 30 May 2007 18:39:49 -0500
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and subject line Bug#426794: reportbug: -m switch ignored; report is sent to
Debian regardless
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Package: reportbug
Version: 3.38
Severity: important
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when launching reportbug with the -m switch, it is ignored,
which results in the report being submitted to Debian
regardless. The behavior I witness:
8X-----
*** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. ***
Detected character set: UTF-8
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.
Using '"Martin-Éric Racine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' as your from address.
Getting status for skype...
Checking for newer versions at packages.debian.org...
Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
Maintainer for skype is 'Skype Technologies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'.
Looking up dependencies of skype...
8X-----
The above already provides two self-contradictory trends:
1) the maintainer is correctly extracted from the debian/control file.
2) and yet, the report will be sent to Debian.
After the usual prompt for a bug title and severity, then composing, I get this:
8X-----
Please select tags: (one at a time) [done]
Spawning nano...
Report will be sent to "Debian Bug Tracking System" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Attachments:
/usr/share/menu/skype
Submit this report on skype (e to edit) [Y|n|a|c|e|i|l|m|p|q|?]? q
8X-----
Thus, a third oddity:
3) the report will be sent to a bogus [EMAIL PROTECTED] address.
Sure enough, the Debian BTS sent me a confirmation e-mail with a bug number.
Worse, the bug report found in the BTS reports the Maintainer as "unkown".
Therefore, I have to conculde that reportbug is defective.
- -- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="nano"
VISUAL="nano"
DEBEMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
EMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
NAME="Martin-Éric Racine"
INTERFACE="text"
** /home/q-funk/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.12"
mode advanced
ui text
realname "Martin-Éric Racine"
email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
sign gpg
header "X-Archive: encrypt"
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-lx (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii python 2.4.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-central 0.5.12 register and build utility for Pyt
reportbug recommends no packages.
- -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
The -m option is working correctly and as expected. See the Debian
Bug Reporting documentation for details on the purpose of submissions
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In general, circumventing the BTS in
submitting bug reports is a bad idea (maintainers may lose your mail,
may not remember a bug was submitted, etc.) - but if you insist on
sending an email only to the maintainer, you have two very simple
options:
- email <packagename>@packages.debian.org using your regular email
client, which will forward the mail to the maintainer without you
needing to look it up.
- Use reportbug's --kudos option, which does the above.
Closing this report.
On 5/30/07, Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Package: reportbug
Version: 3.38
Severity: important
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Hash: SHA1
when launching reportbug with the -m switch, it is ignored,
which results in the report being submitted to Debian
regardless. The behavior I witness:
8X-----
*** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. ***
Detected character set: UTF-8
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.
Using '"Martin-Éric Racine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' as your from address.
Getting status for skype...
Checking for newer versions at packages.debian.org...
Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
Maintainer for skype is 'Skype Technologies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'.
Looking up dependencies of skype...
8X-----
The above already provides two self-contradictory trends:
1) the maintainer is correctly extracted from the debian/control file.
2) and yet, the report will be sent to Debian.
After the usual prompt for a bug title and severity, then composing, I get this:
8X-----
Please select tags: (one at a time) [done]
Spawning nano...
Report will be sent to "Debian Bug Tracking System" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Attachments:
/usr/share/menu/skype
Submit this report on skype (e to edit) [Y|n|a|c|e|i|l|m|p|q|?]? q
8X-----
Thus, a third oddity:
3) the report will be sent to a bogus [EMAIL PROTECTED] address.
Sure enough, the Debian BTS sent me a confirmation e-mail with a bug number.
Worse, the bug report found in the BTS reports the Maintainer as "unkown".
Therefore, I have to conculde that reportbug is defective.
- -- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="nano"
VISUAL="nano"
DEBEMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
EMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
NAME="Martin-Éric Racine"
INTERFACE="text"
** /home/q-funk/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.12"
mode advanced
ui text
realname "Martin-Éric Racine"
email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
sign gpg
header "X-Archive: encrypt"
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-lx (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii python 2.4.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-central 0.5.12 register and build utility for Pyt
reportbug recommends no packages.
- -- no debconf information
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(Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, beginning July 2007.)
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