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and subject line Re: Bug#679146: reportbug should be the most stable
application in Debian, but it is not
has caused the Debian Bug report #679146,
regarding reportbug should be the most stable application in Debian, but it is
not
to be marked as done.
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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: reportbug
Version: 6.4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
It goes without saying that the tools used to report bugs in software must
never crash themselves, but a quick search for "segfault" yields several open
reports against reportbug. The users are probably furious enough as it is
because their favourite software is not to their satisfaction. Seeing the bug
reporting tool crash as well will just make them reluctant to reporting bugs.
I suggest that reportbug should be rewritten in a stable programming language
(C for instance) and shipped statically linked against libraries that are known
to work well. Even in Debian Sid because the need for good bug reports is just
as great there.
And no, I'm unfortunately not providing a patch myself, I'm just pointing out
the issue.
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="emacs"
DEBEMAIL="de...@antoneliasson.se"
DEBFULLNAME="Anton Eliasson"
INTERFACE="gtk2"
** /home/anton/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "6.3.1"
mode standard
ui gtk2
no-cc
header "X-Debbugs-CC: de...@antoneliasson.se"
smtphost reportbug.debian.org
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 0.9.6
ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1
ii python-reportbug 6.4
reportbug recommends no packages.
Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn claws-mail <none>
pn debconf-utils <none>
pn debsums <none>
pn dlocate <none>
ii emacs23-bin-common 23.4+1-3
ii exim4 4.80-3
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.80-3
ii file 5.11-1
ii gnupg 1.4.12-4
ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-3
pn python-gtkspell <none>
pn python-urwid <none>
ii python-vte 1:0.28.2-4
ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6
Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii apt 0.9.6
ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1
ii python-debian 0.1.21
ii python-debianbts 1.11
ii python-support 1.0.14
python-reportbug suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Hello Anton,
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Anton Eliasson <de...@antoneliasson.se> wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
> It goes without saying that the tools used to report bugs in software must
> never crash themselves, but a quick search for "segfault" yields several open
> reports against reportbug. The users are probably furious enough as it is
> because their favourite software is not to their satisfaction. Seeing the bug
> reporting tool crash as well will just make them reluctant to reporting bugs.
>
> I suggest that reportbug should be rewritten in a stable programming language
> (C for instance) and shipped statically linked against libraries that are
> known
> to work well. Even in Debian Sid because the need for good bug reports is just
> as great there.
Thanks for the suggestion, but it's not something I see happening.
> And no, I'm unfortunately not providing a patch myself, I'm just pointing out
> the issue.
I just hope echoing your thoughts made you feel better; from my side,
it would have been better to have something "concrete" to work on. I'm
closing this report, given there's nothing to work on (except fixing
the other bugs reportbug has, but that's what the other reports are
for).
Regards,
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
--- End Message ---
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