Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-11-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 10 oct 11, 18:38:33, Bob Proulx wrote: 3. Reportbug sends the bug report bug using /usr/sbin/sendmail as the MTA. If that doesn't work then reportbug (and other commands too) will have problems. I have no workaround to /usr/sbin/sendmail not working. That simply must work

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 10 oct 11, 18:38:33, Bob Proulx wrote: 3. Reportbug sends the bug report bug using /usr/sbin/sendmail as the MTA. If that doesn't work then reportbug (and other commands too) will have problems. I have no workaround to /usr/sbin/sendmail not

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-11-08 Thread Brian
On Tue 08 Nov 2011 at 10:57:27 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Good information. Thanks for sharing it. A possible downside to that setting is that your host will try to connect directly to the reportbug.debian.org host on smtp port 25. By itself that is fine. But many networks today block port

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-11-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 nov 11, 19:13:03, Brian wrote: Instead of penalising many 1000s of legitimate users the network administrators could remove the connectivity of the offenders. Why don't they? My own ISP conducts regular sweeps for open relays and has an abuse department which takes rigorous action

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-11-08 Thread Brian
On Tue 08 Nov 2011 at 22:48:28 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: I can only say Wow! But you said it so charmingly. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-14 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:21:30 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I will try to be very brief to avoid getting you extenuated ;-) Camaleón wrote: (about Flash Player support in ARM platform...) (although it seems that ARM already supports Flash Player¹) I did not know that ARM now had closed source

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:07:04 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Besides, I'm sure you know that flash player plugin can contact you webcam and audio devices very easily. Is that true on an ARM based platform? Remember that Debian supports a

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Yes, an ARM machine. And I picked that one because there is no Adobe Flash for ARM. (although it seems that ARM already supports Flash Player¹) I did not know that ARM now had closed source proprietary binary blobs for it. As you can see ARM truly is a

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:58:27 +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 11 Oct 2011 at 16:37:17 +, Camaleón wrote: And I see there is a bug report for having an http alternative: support for submitting bug reports via http http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590214 A quote from that

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:26:09 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: (shock, surprise) You are saying that filling out a web form in a browser can run processes on the local host machine and send data to the internet? No it can't or it would be a severe security

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-12 Thread Brian
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 10:30:53 +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:58:27 +0100, Brian wrote: Quite likely. But it doesn't bolster your case and has absolutely nothing to do with bugzilla shenanagins. Since when having options is something bad? An http gateway would be a

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:12:30 +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 10:30:53 +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:58:27 +0100, Brian wrote: Quite likely. But it doesn't bolster your case and has absolutely nothing to do with bugzilla shenanagins. Since when having options

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-12 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:37:17 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:57:50 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:15:46 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:50:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote:

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Besides, I'm sure you know that flash player plugin can contact you webcam and audio devices very easily. Is that true on an ARM based platform? Remember that Debian supports a large number of architectures. AFAIK there is no Adobe

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:50:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Darac Marjal wrote: While a web-based interface may be nice, I think that where debian's bug reporting excels is in the 'reportbug' program. It's not just a program that sends emails to a single address, but it provides

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: 3. Reportbug sends the bug report bug using /usr/sbin/sendmail as the   MTA.  If that doesn't work then reportbug (and other commands too)   will have problems.  I have no workaround to /usr/sbin/sendmail not   working.  That

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:15:46 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:50:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Darac Marjal wrote: ... And bugzilla does not tend to crash when writing bug reports :-) In fact, I usually avoid using reportbug

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:57:50 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:15:46 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:50:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Darac Marjal wrote: ... And bugzilla does not tend to crash when writing bug

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 10 Oct 2011 at 17:50:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: And bugzilla does not tend to crash when writing bug reports :-) In fact, I usually avoid using reportbug because of its high instability (it's annoying having to re-do a full report several times...) and

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Brian
On Tue 11 Oct 2011 at 16:37:17 +, Camaleón wrote: And I see there is a bug report for having an http alternative: support for submitting bug reports via http http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590214 A quote from that link (which Stefano Zacchiroli went on to support):

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: (shock, surprise) You are saying that filling out a web form in a browser can run processes on the local host machine and send data to the internet? No it can't or it would be a severe security vulnerability. Please list any browser that allows this so

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 11:04:07AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:01:11 +0200, Frank Lanitz wrote: Is there any issue known with reportbug in unstable/bugs.debian.org? Somehow I don't receive an response with a bug number when submitting a bugreport If you receive no

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-10 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:42:50 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 11:04:07AM +, Camaleón wrote: (...) I'd like to see a web based interface for reporting bugs in Debian, while I find reporting by e-mail a very nice (must have) option, bugzilla-alike based interfaces are

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-10 Thread Brian
On Mon 10 Oct 2011 at 11:42:50 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 11:04:07AM +, Camaleón wrote: I'd like to see a web based interface for reporting bugs in Debian, while I find reporting by e-mail a very nice (must have) option, bugzilla-alike based interfaces are

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: Darac Marjal wrote: While a web-based interface may be nice, I think that where debian's bug reporting excels is in the 'reportbug' program. It's not just a program that sends emails to a single address, but it provides a good guide through the bug-reporting process,

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-10 Thread Disc Magnet
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Camaleón wrote: Darac Marjal wrote: While a web-based interface may be nice, I think that where debian's bug reporting excels is in the 'reportbug' program. It's not just a program that sends emails to a single address, but

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Disc Magnet wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I have never ever seen reportbug crash. Since it is just a python script I would think that an actual crash would be quite difficult. I am hoping you filed a bug report on reportbug crashing! :-) reportbug hangs at the drop of a hat on my system.

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-10 Thread John Hasler
Disc Magnet wrote: It usually hangs whenever I launch reportbug and click on some other window (thus report bug becoming the inactive window). When I click on reportbug again, it is found to be in hung state. It doesn't respond at all. I think you are using reportbug-ng, not reportbug. I

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:01:11 +0200, Frank Lanitz wrote: Is there any issue known with reportbug in unstable/bugs.debian.org? Somehow I don't receive an response with a bug number when submitting a bugreport If you receive no bug number it could be because the report was not properly

Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-07 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hi folks, Is there any issue known with reportbug in unstable/bugs.debian.org? Somehow I don't receive an response with a bug number when submitting a bugreport Cheers, Frank -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/ pgpXhHPgXEGnc.pgp Description: PGP signature