Your message dated Mon, 23 May 2011 19:49:05 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#627688: reportbug: should not assume a working MTA
configuration
has caused the Debian Bug report #627688,
regarding reportbug: should not assume a working MTA configuration
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: reportbug
Version: 5.0
Severity: normal
When configuring, reportbug suggests to use a local MTA instead of assuming no
MTA is configured. This is even true for the "novice" part. Interrestingly
reportbug assumes no special configuration for fetching bug reports.
The question is:
Do you have a "mail transport agent" (MTA) like Exim, Postfix or SSMTP
configured on this computer to send mail to the Internet? [Y|n|q|?]?
This should default to No.
Consequently the next question should be formulated towards not knowing the
SMTP host, rather to present the fallback presented at the end of the text.
Proposal:
Please enter the name of your SMTP host. Just press ENTER if you don't have one
or don't know, and so a Debian SMTP host will be used.
Usually it's called something like "mail.example.org" or "smtp.example.org". If
you need to use a different port than default, use the <host>:<port>
alternative format.
Patrick
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="text"
** /home/koarl/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "5.0"
mode standard
ui text
realname "Patrick Strasser"
email "[email protected]"
no-cc
header "X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]"
smtphost reportbug.debian.org
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 0.8.14.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii python 2.6.6-14 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-reportbug 5.0 Python modules for interacting wit
reportbug recommends no packages.
Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn debconf-utils <none> (no description available)
pn debsums <none> (no description available)
pn dlocate <none> (no description available)
ii emacs23-bin-common 23.3+1-1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii file 5.04-5+b1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii python-gtk2 2.17.0-4+b1 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
pn python-gtkspell <none> (no description available)
pn python-urwid <none> (no description available)
ii python-vte 1:0.24.3-2 Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii ssmtp [mail-transport-agent] 2.64-4 extremely simple MTA to get mail o
ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1-2 desktop integration utilities from
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
tags 627688 wontfix
thanks
Hi,
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 19:03, Patrick Strasser
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 5.0
> Severity: normal
>
>
> When configuring, reportbug suggests to use a local MTA instead of assuming
> no MTA is configured. This is even true for the "novice" part.
Nope, we intentionally ask for a MTA.
> Interrestingly reportbug assumes no special configuration for fetching bug
> reports.
because it's plain HTTP, and it it's not possible to fetch bugs, they
won't be shown, while if you don't have a MTA/someway-to-send-an-email
your bugreport is lost.
> The question is:
> Do you have a "mail transport agent" (MTA) like Exim, Postfix or SSMTP
> configured on this computer to send mail to the Internet? [Y|n|q|?]?
>
> This should default to No.
nope.
>
> Consequently the next question should be formulated towards not knowing the
> SMTP host, rather to present the fallback presented at the end of the text.
if you don't enter anything, reportbug will end up using
reportbug.debian.org on port 587, which we were asked to not default
to. So we're simply trying "hard" to configure reportbug to use some
other service and rely on reportbug.d.o only as last resort.
That's also explained in the documentation:
/usr/share/doc/reportbug/README.Users.gz §reportbug.debian.org SMTP
Host Service Usage Policy
That said, I'm closing this report as wontfix.
Regards,
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
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