Package: reportbug Version: 6.6.4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I wanted to report a bug from within emacs so I ran `M-x debian-bug`, answered the questions and was presented with a mail buffer containing a backtrace. ----- 8< ----- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> Subject: reportbug: Produces backtrace when invoked from emacs X-Debbugs-CC: Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen _at_ example.com> From: Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen _at_ example.com> --text follows this line-- Severity: normal main() File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1002, in main (options, args) = parser.parse_args() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1400, in parse_args stop = self._process_args(largs, rargs, values) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1444, in _process_args self._process_short_opts(rargs, values) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1551, in _process_short_opts option.process(opt, value, values, self) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 789, in process self.action, self.dest, opt, value, values, parser) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 809, in take_action self.callback(self, opt, value, parser, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 760, in verify_append_option elif value in valid: TypeError: argument of type 'function' is not iterable -- -- Package-specific info: <#part type="text/plain" disposition=attachment description="Bug script output"> <#/part> Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 EPSON FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962 ----- >8 ----- I removed the backtrace and went on to write and submit a bugreport. I promptly got a message that my report could not be processed because it was missing a few of the fields expected in the body (Package: and probably others). -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: INTERFACE="text" ** /home/olaf/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "6.6.4" mode standard ui text email "olaf.meeuwis...@avasys.jp" http_proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3128/" -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 1.0.9.10 ii python 2.7.9-1 ii python-reportbug 6.6.4 pn python:any <none> reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn claws-mail <none> pn debconf-utils <none> pn debsums <none> pn dlocate <none> ii dma [mail-transport-agent] 0.9-1 ii emacs24-bin-common 24.5+1-1 ii file 1:5.22+15-2 ii gnupg 1.4.19-5 ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-4 pn python-gtkspell <none> pn python-urwid <none> ii python-vte 1:0.28.2-5 ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc3+git20150907-1 Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on: ii apt 1.0.9.10 ii python-debian 0.1.27 ii python-debianbts 1.14 pn python:any <none> python-reportbug suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 EPSON FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962 _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list Reportbug-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint