On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:54:39 +0530 "shirish agarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all, > I am using Ubuntu 7.04 (please don't laugh) and at times I do > report bugs. Sometimes I see that the bug-report is concerning > upstream (some issue, usability bug or feature-list wish). Unlike > bugs.launchpad.netwhich ubuntu has, the only way I came to know is one > can report bugs to > debian through an application called reportbug. After installing > reportbug, making my bug-report came to know further that it needs an > MTA. Digging further came to know that there are only 2 , postfix & > sendmail. As I am reading my mail on the web (Gmail) hence didn't no > need to have an e-mail client (or MUA) hence became non-plussed. I am > sure I am neither the 1st one to have this problem nor the last one. > Hence instead of just posting for the howto of this in the mailing > list, also have published it in ubuntuforums.org > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2463091#post2463091 . The > main reason behind doing all this is there are not enough bug > triagers around. Something like 30 for all the bugs which come > around. So there is a possibility that such bugs do not get reported. > Hence if we have a direct route to u guys it would make things that > much more easier for all around. So post the answer at the forum > itself so people can use it. There is also possibility of adding the > whole thing to a wiki so people can use it to make bug-reports to > debian as & when needed. Less stress for everybody concerned. Cheers. Don't know about Ubuntu but Debian (usually) installs exim4 as MTA by default. Best to direct Ubuntu questions to Ubuntu lists as I believe they base their distro on Debian unstable. That is unstable as in 'likely to break at any time' Regards, John -- War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. Ambrose Bierce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
