On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > title 448493 reportbug: Use 'mailto:' URL from Bugs field as submit address > severity 448493 wishlist > tags 448493 + moreinfo > thanks > > The Bugs field in a 'debian/control' file doesn't necessarily have > anything to do with email. As defined in the 'deb-control(5)' manpage: > > Bugs: <url> > The url of the bug tracking system for this package. The > current used format is <bts_type>://<bts_address>, like > debbugs://bugs.debian.org. > > Presumably, then, this bug report is asking that "mailto" be treated > by 'reportbug' as a "bts_type" value, and that 'reportbug' should > parse the email address from such a URL as the bug submission email > address. > > Since the 'deb-control(5)' manpage makes no mention of it, is there > any better specification of this interpretation of the Bugs field?
My recollection from the time this was proposed was that Bugs: was supposed to be a URI with "debbugs" as a sort of special URI-type indicating that the upstream BTS interacted like debbugs. I specifically remember mailto as being permissible; indeed, I coded it to work at some point. Certainly reportbug was designed to treat Bugs: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] as a submission address--if you go back far enough in the changelog it should be mentioned--but some of the logic may have gotten too mucked up for it to work today now that other things are considered too (lsb_release output, the Origin header, etc.). Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
