Bug#422085: bugscripts are executed, but content not put in email

2008-07-21 Thread Sune Vuorela
reopen 422085 thanks Hi! I just tried using reportbug-ng to report bugs against packages like texlive- doc-base, xserver-xorg and mdadm. (what's common for these 3 packages is that thay have bug scripts) And the result is: I see a terminal pop up briefly with a lot of text scrolling over and a

Bug#422085: closed by Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#422085: bugscripts are executed, but content not put in email)

2008-07-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:00:04 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is not a bug of rng and not related to 422085: err. yes it is. * calling /usr/share/bug/texlive-doc-base 31 aborts with an error (getkey: command not found) when called in the console. That's one of the

Bug#422085: closed by Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#422085: bugscripts are executed, but content not put in email)

2008-07-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:00:04 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: * calling /usr/share/bug/texlive-doc-base 31 aborts with an error (getkey: command not found) when called in the console. That's one of the documented functions such a script can rely on. Where

Bug#422085: closed by Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#422085: bugscripts are executed, but content not put in email)

2008-07-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 17:15:10 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:00:04 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: * calling /usr/share/bug/texlive-doc-base 31 aborts with an error (getkey: command not found) when called in the console.

Bug#422085: closed by Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#422085: bugscripts are executed, but content not put in email)

2008-07-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 17:15:10 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Julien Cristau wrote: That's one of the documented functions such a script can rely on. Where is that documented? And where does getkey come from? Haven't found a package providing this command.

Bug#422085: closed by Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#422085: bugscripts are executed, but content not put in email)

2008-07-21 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Bastian Venthur said: And please keep in mind that this only happens when the output of a script is *very* large -- to large for the shell to handle -- like the one from xserver-xorg, for the most other packages, everything should work fine automatically and

Bug#422085: closed by Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#422085: bugscripts are executed, but content not put in email)

2008-07-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 18:00:12 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: The output of /usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg/script 31 is ~65K big. Calling the mua like: mua --body $OUTPUT ... does not work, at least Calling the mua like that doesn't make any sense. Just give it a filename or something on stdin,

Bug#422085: closed by Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#422085: bugscripts are executed, but content not put in email)

2008-07-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Bastian Venthur said: And please keep in mind that this only happens when the output of a script is *very* large -- to large for the shell to handle -- like the one from xserver-xorg, for the most other packages, everything should work fine

Bug#422085: closed by Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#422085: bugscripts are executed, but content not put in email)

2008-07-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 18:00:12 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: The output of /usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg/script 31 is ~65K big. Calling the mua like: mua --body $OUTPUT ... does not work, at least Calling the mua like that doesn't make any sense. Just give it a

Bug#422085: closed by Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#422085: bugscripts are executed, but content not put in email)

2008-07-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 18:16:39 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Please give me a concrete example, so I can implement your idea. Please test if it works with xdg-email and icedove. It also has to work combined with python's command.getoutput or at least from within Python. *sigh*

Bug#422085: closed by Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#422085: bugscripts are executed, but content not put in email)

2008-07-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 18:16:39 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Please give me a concrete example, so I can implement your idea. Please test if it works with xdg-email and icedove. It also has to work combined with python's command.getoutput or at least from within

Bug#422085: closed by Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#422085: bugscripts are executed, but content not put in email)

2008-07-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 18:46:16 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: - A few mails ago, I already explained (and provided a bugnumber), that the --attach parameter of xdg-email doesn't work and that not every MUA supports attaching a file from the command line. - You said, then the MUAs are

Bug#422085: closed by Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#422085: bugscripts are executed, but content not put in email)

2008-07-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 18:46:16 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: - A few mails ago, I already explained (and provided a bugnumber), that the --attach parameter of xdg-email doesn't work and that not every MUA supports attaching a file from the command line. - You