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and subject line Re: Bug#673534: reportbug: supplying an e-mail address should
be optional, not required
has caused the Debian Bug report #673534,
regarding reportbug: supplying an e-mail address should be optional, not
required
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
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673534: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673534
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: reportbug
Version: 4.12.6
Severity: wishlist
It's foolish to require a bug submitter to supply an email address.
One who submits a bug report may or may not be interested in tracking
the bug via email. And submitters may (quite rightly) be concerned
about disclosure of their email address.
An attempt at circumventing the problem is to use a bogus address like
"[email protected]". However, the malconfigured mail server responds
inappropriately:
May 19 05:32:49 local postfix/smtp[22384]: certificate verification
failed for bugs-master.debian.org[140.211.15.34]:25: untrusted
issuer /C=NA/ST=NA/L=Ankh Morpork/O=Debian SMTP/OU=Debian SMTP
CA/CN=Debian SMTP CA/[email protected]
and after further attempts the reply becomes:
May 19 11:32:42 local postfix/smtp[2278]: C11812005FD:
to=<[email protected]>,
relay=bugs-master.debian.org[140.211.15.34]:25, delay=7328,
delays=7307/0.33/21/0, dsn=4.0.0, status=deferred (host
bugs-master.debian.org[140.211.15.34] refused to talk to me: 421
busoni.debian.org: Too much load; please try again later)
An ugly circumvention that works is to supply a genuine email address
that leads back to a server that blackholes the replies. This is a
poor option to be left with though, because someone else following the
bug might attempt to compose a private message to the submitter. Such
a message would be blackholed, and both the sender and recipient are
unaware.
The reportbug package may not have control over the malconfigured mail
server, but it need not force entry of an email address. An email
address could be internally designated for the purpose of getting
reports through the mail server. In any case, users should not be
required to give an email address to the reportbug client.
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="emacs"
INTERFACE="text"
** $HOME/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "4.12.6"
mode novice
ui text
realname "anonymous coward"
email "[email protected]"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-reportbug 4.12.6 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 23.2+1-7 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii file 5.04-5+squeeze2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii postfix [mail-transp 2.7.1-1+squeeze1 High-performance mail transport ag
ii python-gtk2 2.17.0-4 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
pn python-gtkspell <none> (no description available)
pn python-urwid <none> (no description available)
ii python-vte 1:0.24.3-3 Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-2 desktop integration utilities from
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:37 PM, anonymous coward
<[email protected]> wrote:
> It's foolish to require a bug submitter to supply an email address.
I stop here. Debian BTS is email-based, so you *need* a working email
address in order to be contacted by who needs to get your input.
If you feel like it's too much, then you're definitely fine not
reporting any bug to Debian. This is our tool, our process, and just
call it "foolish" doesn't exactly show you've tried to understand the
needs for it.
I'm closing this report, it has nothing to do with reportbug. Feel
free to direct your attention to something like forum.debian.net (or
any other form of support debian has).
Regards,
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
--- End Message ---
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