Bug#532150: [Reportbug-maint] Bug#532150: reportbug: [regression] no longer supports custom mua commands
chaica wrote: > 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. My apologies - I submitted the patch in 865792 before spotting this entry. The patch supports the mua_exists() call, and has error handling/detection in the custom case that is equivalent to the supported muas. Personally, I'd expect a decent mua (vs. an mta) to show the user what it is going to send/has sent. In any case, you could make it clear that custom mua's are the buyer's responsibility. -- AE0D BF5A 92A5 ADE4 9481 BA6F 8A31 71EF 3661 50CE signature.asc Description: GooPG digital signature
Bug#532150: [Reportbug-maint] Bug#532150: reportbug: [regression] no longer supports custom mua commands
On Jun 07, cha...@ohmytux.com wrote: 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 If it returns rc!=0, it's not. Anyway, not even mutt works anymore. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#532150: reportbug: [regression] no longer supports custom mua commands
I use my preferred MUA (Icedove) precisely because reportbug does not give me any feedback about whether a bug has been sent. If I use Icedove then I have a copy in my sent folder. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#532150: [Reportbug-maint] Bug#532150: reportbug: [regression] no longer supports custom mua commands
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#532150: [Reportbug-maint] Bug#532150: reportbug: [regression] no longer supports custom mua commands
That makes sense I guess. How about a custom-mua option for those of us who can write our own code to support MUAs reportbug doesn't (yet) support or will never support? If the script fails (returns != 0) you can assume that delivery failed. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#532150: reportbug: [regression] no longer supports custom mua commands
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 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
