Package: debian-el
Version: 33.3
Severity: important

This change

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| emacs-goodies-el (33.3) unstable; urgency=low
| [...]
|   - debian-bug.el: Bug fix: "stty fails with 'inappropriate ioctl for
|     device'", thanks to Sanjoy Mahajan for the report and to H. Stordahl
|     for the solution that has added to reportbug: As of version 4.12
|     reportbug has a --no-bug-script option (Closes: #502317).
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means that it is no longer possible to compose meaningful bug reports in
Emacs, as maintainers will rightfully flame the submitter (me :-() for
not including full information.  Please revert this change, I will
happily file bugs against any package whose bug script does not deal
correctly with the lack of a tty.

Running the bug scripts is *not really optional* despite the new
reportbug option, there have been numerous complaints about the
reportbug-ng program which used to leave this information out.  Don't
turn Emacs into such a dumb tool!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc6-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debian-el depends on:
ii  bzip2                     1.0.5-4        high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  dpkg                      1.15.7.1sven1  Debian package management system
ii  emacs-snapshot [emacsen]  1:20100422-1   The GNU Emacs editor (development 
ii  emacs21 [emacsen]         21.4a+1-5.7    The GNU Emacs editor
ii  emacs22-gtk [emacsen]     22.3+1-1.2     The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK use
ii  emacs23 [emacsen]         23.1+1-6       The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ us
ii  file                      5.04-2         Determines file type using "magic"
ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in 
ii  reportbug                 4.12.1         reports bugs in the Debian distrib

Versions of packages debian-el recommends:
pn  dlocate                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  groff-base                    1.20.1-9   GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii  wget                          1.12-2     retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages debian-el suggests:
pn  gnus                          <none>     (no description available)

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