On April 12, 2010 10:26:57 pm James Vega wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 02:44:04PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > > bts is failing the same way on 2 machines on 2 tested: > > > > $ LANG=C bts tags 407598 - fixed-upstream > > User-Agent: devscripts bts/2.10.62: No such file or directory > > bts: mail: > > chea...@vinci:~$ > > > > This happens with version 2.10.61 (testing) too. It seems unusable. I'm > > not using bts regularly, but it would be surprising that bts was > > completely broken. > > The part of the script in which this occurs is where we fork/exec the > mail process. It basically boils down to: > > printf "tags 407598 - fixed-upstream\nthanks\n" | mail -s "tagging 407598" > -a "User-Agent: devscripts bts/2.10.62" cont...@bugs.debian.org > > Although the above isn't exactly what's happening, does that work? The > error message you're getting seems like it may be due to not finding > mail, but I'd expect to see more than just "No such file or directory".
It doesn't work. The output for your test was User-Agent: devscripts bts/2.10.62: No such file or directory This happens because mail is provided by heirloom-mailx, for which -a means: -a file Attach the given file to the message. The reason these 2 PCs had heirloom-mailx is that they both have exim, and exim4-base recommends mailx. heirloom-mailx started providing mailx in 2008. I would have thought bsd-mailx would have been picked by default to provide mailx, but it seems that's not the case. heirloom-mailx is used. One thing complicated a lot the analysis of this issue. The management of the mailx alternative seems to be broken. If you install/uninstall mailx providers to fix this issue, please pay attention to what happens to mail(1). It broke at some point on the 2 PCs. mailutils may well be the culprit. It provides mail(1) directly in /usr/bin/mail, which is usually an alternative link. This would deserve another bug report. I think /usr/bin/mail disappears sometimes, even when a mailx provider is present. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
