Control: tags -1 debian-bug.el: reportbug fails without a valid email address in environmental variables DEBEMAIL, REPORTBUGEMAIL, or EMAIL
Hi Łukasz, Łukasz Stelmach <[email protected]> writes: > Package: elpa-debian-el > Version: 37.19.1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > I was trying to report a bug in the inkscape package via emacs' debian-bug > command. But the report wasn't properly prefilled as it used to be. > > I debugged debian-bug.el and found out that reportbug called on line > 766[1] returns "1" and fails to return any output. I called the very > same command from a shell and it succeded (there was some reasonable > output). However when I set the HOME environment variable to an empty > string "", reportbug printed the following error message: > > Unable to identify a valid from address, please run 'reportbug > --configure' > > The lisp code didn't handle this situation properly and didn't show any > error message. > > To work around this problem, I set EMAIL environment to my e-mail addres > > (setenv "EMAIL" "[email protected]") > > before running debian-bug. > > [1] > https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/debian-el/-/blob/master/debian-bug.el?ref_type=heads#L766 > Thanks for your report! As you have identified, the actual cause is that without a valid email address in environmental variable DEBEMAIL, REPORTBUGEMAIL, or EMAIL, reportbug will fail to run. So HOME is not the real cause here. I have adjusted the bug title accordingly. I prepared a fix to check for a valid email in those envvars and fail early if cannot find one. It should appear in experimental soon. Please help test. (We can also invoke reportbug with "--email", but I think this may invite people to set email in too many different places, where some only work for debian-bug and some only for reportbug, which will make debugging even harder. envvars are simple and work for both. Suggestions welcome.) > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 13.3 > APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, > 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 6.12.69+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) > Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not > set > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages elpa-debian-el depends on: > ii bzip2 1.0.8-6 > ii dh-elpa-helper 2.1.9 > ii emacsen-common 3.0.8 > ii reportbug 13.2.0 > ii xz-utils 5.8.1-1 > ii zstd 1.5.7+dfsg-1 > > Versions of packages elpa-debian-el recommends: > ii emacs 1:30.1+1-6 > ii emacs-gtk [emacs] 1:30.1+1-6 > ii wget 1.25.0-2 > > elpa-debian-el suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > -- Regards, Xiyue Deng
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