Package: reportbug Version: 4.12.4em1 Severity: normal Reconfigured from a terminal started afresh after commenting out the setting of the EMAIL environment variable and then reconfiguring reportbug to simulate where the user hadn't set such a variable at all.
This time, configuring reportbug didn't find the email address to use, so it invented a local one which I replaced and which then appeared in the reportbugrc. So this bug is actually that reportbugrc fails to get the environment variable using the desktop file (because that was set in ~/.bashrc) which it would use when loaded from the command line. Not really a fault in reportbug (as long as this one sends OK). I don't know whether reportbug would be able to source the ~/.bashrc even when using the GTK2 frontend which would avoid this potential problem, particularly as other command line programs will re-use the same variable. -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: INTERFACE="gtk2" ** /home/neil/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "4.12.4" mode novice ui gtk2 email "codeh...@debian.org" no-cc header "X-Debbugs-CC: codeh...@debian.org" smtphost reportbug.debian.org -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.7.25.3em1 Advanced front-end for dpkg (gripp ii python 2.6.5-5em1 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-reportbug 4.12.4em1 Python modules for interacting wit reportbug recommends no packages. reportbug suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
# reportbug preferences file # character encoding: UTF-8 # Version of reportbug this preferences file was written by reportbug_version "4.12.4" # default operating mode: one of: novice, standard, advanced, expert mode novice # default user interface ui gtk2 # offline setting - comment out to be online #offline # name and email setting (if non-default) # realname "Neil Williams" email "codeh...@debian.org" # Disable fallback mode by commenting out the following: no-cc header "X-Debbugs-CC: codeh...@debian.org" smtphost reportbug.debian.org # You can add other settings after this line. See # /etc/reportbug.conf for a full listing of options.