reopen 426794 thanks Sorry, no.
Using the -m switch is understood to be mailing the person found in the Maintainer field directly and should behave accordingly; it is NOT expected to mail a bogus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> address instead. Neither of the two options you describe below fix the issue either, since they prevent using the tool to report bugs on packages coming from outside the Debian repository. Besides, as I recall, there used to be a time when reporting on a third-party package would automatically mail whoever appeared in Maintainer. This is still expected to work. On 5/31/07, Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The -m option is working correctly and as expected. See the Debian Bug Reporting documentation for details on the purpose of submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In general, circumventing the BTS in submitting bug reports is a bad idea (maintainers may lose your mail, may not remember a bug was submitted, etc.) - but if you insist on sending an email only to the maintainer, you have two very simple options: - email <packagename>@packages.debian.org using your regular email client, which will forward the mail to the maintainer without you needing to look it up. - Use reportbug's --kudos option, which does the above. Closing this report. On 5/30/07, Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: reportbug > Version: 3.38 > Severity: important > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > when launching reportbug with the -m switch, it is ignored, > which results in the report being submitted to Debian > regardless. The behavior I witness: > > 8X----- > *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** > Detected character set: UTF-8 > Please change your locale if this is incorrect. > > Using '"Martin-Éric Racine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' as your from address. > Getting status for skype... > Checking for newer versions at packages.debian.org... > Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release). > Maintainer for skype is 'Skype Technologies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'. > Looking up dependencies of skype... > 8X----- > > The above already provides two self-contradictory trends: > 1) the maintainer is correctly extracted from the debian/control file. > 2) and yet, the report will be sent to Debian. > > After the usual prompt for a bug title and severity, then composing, I get this: > > 8X----- > Please select tags: (one at a time) [done] > Spawning nano... > Report will be sent to "Debian Bug Tracking System" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Attachments: > /usr/share/menu/skype > Submit this report on skype (e to edit) [Y|n|a|c|e|i|l|m|p|q|?]? q > 8X----- > > Thus, a third oddity: > > 3) the report will be sent to a bogus [EMAIL PROTECTED] address. > > Sure enough, the Debian BTS sent me a confirmation e-mail with a bug number. > Worse, the bug report found in the BTS reports the Maintainer as "unkown". > > Therefore, I have to conculde that reportbug is defective. > > - -- Package-specific info: > ** Environment settings: > EDITOR="nano" > VISUAL="nano" > DEBEMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > EMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > NAME="Martin-Éric Racine" > INTERFACE="text" > > ** /home/q-funk/.reportbugrc: > reportbug_version "3.12" > mode advanced > ui text > realname "Martin-Éric Racine" > email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > sign gpg > header "X-Archive: encrypt" > > - -- System Information: > Debian Release: 4.0 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i586) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-lx (PREEMPT) > Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages reportbug depends on: > ii apt 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg > ii python 2.4.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o > ii python-central 0.5.12 register and build utility for Pyt > > reportbug recommends no packages. > > - -- no debconf information > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGXfqIeXr56x4Muc0RAmWpAJwLzi2uaWJFy+n6jiG1Iswg0V9NsACgkEmT > N1BGNGKgfPwDYltw67LthjY= > =osP0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Christopher N. Lawrence, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Saint Louis University (Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, beginning July 2007.) 109 Fitzgerald Hall 3500 Lindell Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri 63103-1021 Website: http://www.cnlawrence.com/
-- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi
