Package: reportbug Version: 6.4.4 Severity: normal reportbug should have a sane default behaviour when run on Debian derivatives. It should not fallback to sending bug reports to Debian when the machine is clearly not a Debian machine.
Derivatives should only have to fork base-files and update the information there to get a sane behaviour. When putting correct information in /etc/os-release and /etc/dpkg/origins/default, reportbug should be able to decide what to do with a bug report. ┏(kali-amd64) x230-buxy:~ ┗(524)$ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux 1.0" NAME="Kali GNU/Linux" ID=kali VERSION="1.0" VERSION_ID="1.0" ID_LIKE=debian ANSI_COLOR="1;31" HOME_URL="http://www.kali.org/"; SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.kali.org/"; BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.kali.org/"; ┏(kali-amd64) x230-buxy:~ ┗(525)$ cat /etc/dpkg/origins/default Vendor: Kali Vendor-URL: http://www.kali.org/ Parent: debian Bugs: http://bugs.kali.org ┏(kali-amd64) x230-buxy:~ ┗(530)$ reportbug apt *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** [...] Will send report to Kali (per lsb_release). Kali bug tracking system has no web URL; bypassing query [...] Report will be sent to "Debian Bug Tracking System" <sub...@bugs.debian.org> Submit this report on apt (e to edit) [y|n|a|c|E|i|l|m|p|q|d|t|s|?]? ^C Really, reportbug should have noticed that this is not Debian and that Kali is using a web-based bugtracker. As such reportbug can't send its bug report by mail. Instead it should warn the user that the proper way to report a bug is to go visit http://bugs.kali.org. It would offer to continue in --template mode so that the user has the required information ready to paste in his web-based bugreport. BTW, I don't think that reportbug gains much by using lsb_release to gather distro information. Right now it's not working well (see #703677) and furthermore parsing /etc/os-release is easy and you already parse /etc/dpkg/origins/* anyway. Cheers, Raphaël Hertzog. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
