Subject: reportbug can not handle SMTP passwords with non ASCII UTF8 characters Package: reportbug Version: 13.0.1 Severity: normal
For german users passwords containing non ASCII UTF8 characters like Umlauts is
normal.
If usng UTF8 password reportbug stops with the error:
Connecting to xxxxxx via SMTP...
Enter SMTP password for x...@xxxxxxx.xxx:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2386, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1094, in main
return iface.user_interface()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2369, in user_interface
submit.send_report(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/submit.py", line 483, in
send_report
conn.login(smtpuser, smtppasswd)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/smtplib.py", line 739, in login
(code, resp) = self.auth(
^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/smtplib.py", line 641, in auth
response = encode_base64(initial_response.encode('ascii'), eol='')
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\uxxxx' in position
nn: ordinal not in range(128)
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="text"
** /home/mi/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "7.5.0"
mode advanced
ui text
email "mjbec...@web.de"
smtphost "smtp.web.de"
smtpuser "mjbecker"
smtptls
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.7.12-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 2.9.3
ii python3 3.11.8-1
ii python3-reportbug 13.0.1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.22
reportbug recommends no packages.
Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn claws-mail <none>
ii debconf 1.5.86
pn debsums <none>
pn dlocate <none>
ii emacs-bin-common 1:29.3+1-3
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.97-8
ii file 1:5.45-3
ii gnupg 2.2.43-7
ii pgpgpg [pgp] 0.13-12
pn python3-urwid <none>
pn reportbug-gtk <none>
ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1
Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii apt 2.9.3
ii file 1:5.45-3
ii python3 3.11.8-1
ii python3-apt 2.9.0
ii python3-debian 0.1.49
ii python3-debianbts 4.1.1
ii python3-requests 2.31.0+dfsg-2
ii sensible-utils 0.0.22
python3-reportbug suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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