Package: reportbug Version: 6.4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, It goes without saying that the tools used to report bugs in software must never crash themselves, but a quick search for "segfault" yields several open reports against reportbug. The users are probably furious enough as it is because their favourite software is not to their satisfaction. Seeing the bug reporting tool crash as well will just make them reluctant to reporting bugs.
I suggest that reportbug should be rewritten in a stable programming language (C for instance) and shipped statically linked against libraries that are known to work well. Even in Debian Sid because the need for good bug reports is just as great there. And no, I'm unfortunately not providing a patch myself, I'm just pointing out the issue. -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: EDITOR="emacs" DEBEMAIL="[email protected]" DEBFULLNAME="Anton Eliasson" INTERFACE="gtk2" ** /home/anton/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "6.3.1" mode standard ui gtk2 no-cc header "X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]" smtphost reportbug.debian.org -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=sv_SE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.9.6 ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1 ii python-reportbug 6.4 reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn claws-mail <none> pn debconf-utils <none> pn debsums <none> pn dlocate <none> ii emacs23-bin-common 23.4+1-3 ii exim4 4.80-3 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.80-3 ii file 5.11-1 ii gnupg 1.4.12-4 ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-3 pn python-gtkspell <none> pn python-urwid <none> ii python-vte 1:0.28.2-4 ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6 Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.9.6 ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1 ii python-debian 0.1.21 ii python-debianbts 1.11 ii python-support 1.0.14 python-reportbug suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint
