Hi Paul,
Thanks for the report, it is true MUA support has changed a lot recently.
Allowing custom muas outside supported muas exclude the possibility to give
feedback to the user about what happened *after* reportbug gave the bug
report to the mua. How can reportbug know if your script/custom software is
available on your system and efficiently working ? What error code should
reportbug wait to inform the user the bug report failed to be sent ? We
chose to only support some muas in order to provide a better efficienty
using reportbug. And we did it because some users reported bugs *because*
reportbug was not alerting them when the mua failed and finally was not
doing its job.
I think the main idea is to guarantee the user that the bug report will
efficiently be sent through every options offered by reportbug.
Bye,
Carl Chenet
On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:53:35 +0800, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote:
Package: reportbug
Version: 4.4
Severity: important
I just upgraded from lenny to squeeze and was disappointed to find that
reportbug no longer supports custom MUAs. reportbug doesn't support my
preferred MUA (evolution) so I use a custom MUA script to dump reportbug
mails into my evolution drafts folder, where I edit them and send them
on using evolution and its SMTP settings (which vary by mail address).
p...@chianamo:~$ cat ~/.reportbugrc
mode standard
ui text
#ui urwid
#offline
realname Paul Wise
email p...@debian.org
no-cc
mua '/home/pabs/bin/evolution-bug-wrapper'
p...@chianamo:~$ reportbug reportbug
Specified mail user agent is not supported; exiting.
p...@chianamo:~$ cat ~/bin/evolution-bug-wrapper
#!/bin/sh
echo 'From p...@debian.org -' ~/.evolution/mail/local/Drafts
cat $* ~/.evolution/mail/local/Drafts
rm -f $*
p...@chianamo:~$ ls -l ~/bin/evolution-bug-wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pabs pabs 42 2007-08-26 09:47
/home/pabs/bin/evolution-bug-wrapper -
/home/pabs/devel/bin/evolution-bug-wrapper*
p...@chianamo:~$ ls -l ~/devel/bin/evolution-bug-wrapper
-rwxr-x--- 1 pabs pabs 125 2008-12-12 17:24
/home/pabs/devel/bin/evolution-bug-wrapper*
Please fix reportbug to allow custom MUAs again. Using mutt as my MUA
and making it dump postponed messages into evolution's drafts folder is
slightly more cumbersome than just dumping them there via a script.
It would also be nice if you could grab all the MUA stuff from
reportbug-ng so I can just use evolution to report bugs in Debian, the
custom MUA support is also important to keep though IMO.
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR=nano
REPORTBUGEMAIL=p...@debian.org
DEBEMAIL=p...@debian.org
EMAIL=p...@debian.org
DEBFULLNAME=Paul Wise
DEBNAME=Paul Wise
NAME=Paul Wise
INTERFACE=text
** /home/pabs/.reportbugrc:
mode standard
ui text
realname Paul Wise
email p...@debian.org
no-cc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 0.7.21 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii python2.5.4-2An interactive high-level
object-o
ii python-reportbug 4.4Python modules for
interacting
wit
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 exim4 4.69-11metapackage to ease Exim MTA
(v4)
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-11lightweight Exim MTA (v4)
daemon
ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using
magic
ii gnupg 1.4.9-4GNU privacy guard - a free
PGP
rep
ii python-gnome2-extras 2.25.3-1 Extra Python bindings for
the
GNOM
ii python-gtk2 2.14.1-2 Python bindings for the GTK+
widge
ii python-urwid 0.9.8.4-1 curses-based UI/widget
library
for
ii python-vte1:0.20.1-1 Python bindings for the VTE
widget
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