Package: reportbug Version: 6.4.3ubuntu1 Severity: wishlist As you know issues with reportbug not sending mail due to local configuration are now very common. It happens to me all the time because I am testing inside chroots or on a newly installed instance.
Reportbug makes it very easy to save a report to a file, and indeed normal usage saves the result in /var/ However it is quite difficult to send the result unless you are the sorted of aged bearded unix admin that knows the answer is sendmail -t < reportbugfile Every time I have this problem I have to search the net and read reams of exim docs to remember how to just resend the bugreport on a machine where email is actually working. I always end up searching the reportbug manpage for a --resend option and am disappointed to find none A simple option in reportbug called something like --send-savedreport (which basically just runs sendmail -t ) would be _really_ helpful. I did just have a look at the code to see if this was trivial, but my python-foo was too weak. -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: EDITOR="jed" EMAIL="[email protected]" ** /home/wookey/.reportbugrc: smtphost reportbug.debian.org:587 header "X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]" no-cc -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-36-generic (SMP w/4 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 0.9.7.5ubuntu5.4 ii python 2.7.3-0ubuntu7.1 ii python-reportbug 6.4.3ubuntu1 reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn claws-mail <none> pn debconf-utils <none> ii debsums 2.0.52 ii dlocate 1.02 ii emacs23-bin-common 23.4+1-4ubuntu1 ii exim4 4.80-3ubuntu1.1 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.80-3ubuntu1.1 ii file 5.11-2 ii gnupg 1.4.11-3ubuntu4.2 ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-3build1 pn python-gtkspell <none> pn python-urwid <none> ii python-vte 1:0.28.2-5ubuntu1 ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1-2ubuntu6 Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.9.7.5ubuntu5.4 ii python 2.7.3-0ubuntu7.1 ii python-debian 0.1.21+nmu2ubuntu1 ii python-debianbts 1.11 ii python-support 1.0.15 python-reportbug suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/reportbug.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information -- debsums errors found: debsums: changed file /usr/bin/reportbug (from reportbug package) _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint
