On 10/12/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Package: reportbug
Version: 3.30
Severity: minor
this is just a heads-up from the Debian exim4 maintainer team: We have
recently uploaded a version of exim4 to unstable that does not ask any
questions during a d-i run. exim4 will thus default to a "local mail
only" setup on most new installations.
Thus, if reportbug delivers new reports to /usr/lib/sendmail or to
localhost via SMTP, the reports are unlikely to be actually sent.
If reportbug can detect this situation, I suggest that it does so.
We are willing to cooperate to allow this.
Presumably reportbug could get the debconf setting for the installation type.
Mind you, I'm not at all convinced that this is sane default behavior
for a MTA; it certainly throws 20+ years of expected Unix behavior out
the window.
Ugh. I think the best default behavior for reportbug now would be to
connect directly via SMTP to bugs.debian.org, even though that could
lead to some subtle breakage here and there.
Realistically I think the eventual way out has to be some sort of
HTTP-based submission to debbugs that injects things directly into the
BTS and returns a report number immediately; it certainly would make
my life easier.
Chris
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