Adeodato Simó schrieb: > + Bastian Venthur (Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:27:58 +0100): > >> rng tries to include the output of bugscript automatically into the >> mail. But if the output is too long to fit in a single mailto URL it >> recognizes the situation, puts the output in a temporary file and puts a >> message into the mail pointing to the tempfile and asking the user to >> attach this file. rng would attach those file automatically if I'd know >> how to do it. So basically rng provides the output in most cases >> automatically but in some cases, like xorg, the user has to do a manual >> step. > > I see. Well, putting the output of bugscript in the URL sounds scary. > Have you investigated about using the xdg-email(1) command, from the > xdg-utils package? It allows to invoke the configured mailer for the > user (it has some logic to detect what’s the user’s preferred MUA), and > it takes options like --body and --attach. Maybe it is better, maybe it > is not.
Yes, rng already uses xdg-email as default, unfortunately --attach does not work reliable across the different mailclients, so rng has to use the mailto-hack until the BTS supports a different method of submitting bugreports. > > Anyway, I meant to ask: now that reportbug has a graphical interface > and, particularly, a Python library, what are your plans for rng in the > future, during this release cycle? I intend to keep on developing on rng. Keep it bugfree and further enhance the usability. I plan to implement developer-features like sending control-messages to rename, reassign bugs etc. Regarding reportbug. It's nice to see that it finally has a GUI but the current state of this GUI leaves much room for improvements. So I don't see a reason to drop rng, if that was your question. Cheers and happy easter! Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
