Re: Problem using reportbug for *FIRST* time

2020-02-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 28 feb 20, 04:52:24, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/28/2020 02:34 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 27 feb 20, 07:30:31, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > How do I resend it now (I've never knowingly used SMPT)? > > > > #328531 > > I don't see the connection. As per the bug report, reportbug

Re: Problem using reportbug for *FIRST* time

2020-02-28 Thread Brian
). Time will tell. It's glass half-empty time again, we see :). That page recommends using reportbug. You did use it for your report; it worked. What's the problem? -- Brian.

Re: Problem using reportbug for *FIRST* time

2020-02-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/28/2020 02:34 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 27 feb 20, 07:30:31, Richard Owlett wrote: When I attempted to send the bug the response was: Connecting to reportbug.debian.org via SMTP... SMTP send failure: (421, b'buxtehude.debian.org: Too much load; please try again later'). Do you wan

Re: Problem using reportbug for *FIRST* time

2020-02-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 feb 20, 07:30:31, Richard Owlett wrote: > When I attempted to send the bug the response was: > > > Connecting to reportbug.debian.org via SMTP... > > SMTP send failure: (421, b'buxtehude.debian.org: Too much load; please try > > again later'). Do you want to retry (or else save the repor

Re: Problem using reportbug for *FIRST* time

2020-02-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/27/2020 08:51 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:30:31AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: When I attempted to send the bug the response was: For how long would it have been reasonable to continue retrying? You don't retry on a greylist. You wait 20-30-40 minutes and

Re: Problem using reportbug for *FIRST* time

2020-02-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:30:31AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > When I attempted to send the bug the response was: > > > For how long would it have been reasonable to continue retrying? You don't retry on a greylist. You wait 20-30-40 minutes and try again. For buxtehude.debian.o

Problem using reportbug for *FIRST* time

2020-02-27 Thread Richard Owlett
When I attempted to send the bug the response was: Connecting to reportbug.debian.org via SMTP... SMTP send failure: (421, b'buxtehude.debian.org: Too much load; please try again later'). Do you want to retry (or else save the report and exit)? [Y|n|q|?]? ? Y - (default) Yes, please retry. n - N

Error filing RFP using reportbug

2015-08-18 Thread Andrew Beverley
Hi, I'm trying to file a new bug report using bugreport for a RFP via WNPP. I'm getting the following error after I submit the description for the package: Querying Debian BTS for reports on wnpp (source)... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2211, in main(

Re: Using reportbug

2014-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 29 March 2014 19:15:42 Frank Stachyra wrote: > The apparent list of commands at the bottom of the page (e.g., ^G > for Get Help, ^X for Exit, ^etc, etc) produce no result when typed > in, except that they appear as text. What are you typing? Are you typing (sorry, I shall have to use

Re: Using reportbug

2014-03-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 29 mar 14, 20:04:45, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:15:42 -0500 > Frank Stachyra wrote: > > > > Surely there is a way to do this that might be made more readily > > apparent to anybody who has never used reportbug, and is not adept at > > using linux terminals. > > > Yes, it could be

Re: Using reportbug

2014-03-29 Thread Brian
o not want bug reports from beginners, and > deliberately makes using reportbug quite impossible to someone who > does not already know how to use it. Quite a claim! You too could learn how to use it; man page, trial and error etc. etc. > Assuming otherwise: as a beginner, I have no problem usi

Re: Using reportbug

2014-03-29 Thread Martin Read
On 29/03/14 19:15, Frank Stachyra wrote: Surely there is a way to do this that might be made more readily apparent to anybody who has never used reportbug, and is not adept at using linux terminals. reportbug will be invoking whatever your default text editor is. If the VISUAL or EDITOR enviro

Re: Using reportbug

2014-03-29 Thread Joe
received some rather terse replies from the developers in these cases. > and > deliberately makes using reportbug quite impossible to someone who > does not already know how to use it. > I don't really think so, it just goes with 'terse'. > Assuming otherwise: > as a

Using reportbug

2014-03-29 Thread Frank Stachyra
The HOWTO at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting suggests asking questions here that are not resolved by reportbug's interactive prompts. Maybe debian maintainers do not want bug reports from beginners, and deliberately makes using reportbug quite impossible to someone who does not al

Re: How to report a bug in Debian using reportbug

2011-05-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 03:39:14PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-05-28 15:06 +0200, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: > > > If I'm not missing anything, the reportbug package doesn't seem to be > > found when you install the minimal system: > > Not in a minimal system, but in a standard system (the one

Re: How to report a bug in Debian using reportbug

2011-05-28 Thread William Hopkins
On 05/28/11 at 04:06pm, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: > If I'm not missing anything, the reportbug package doesn't seem to be > found when you install the minimal system: > > root@debian:~# aptitude install reportbug > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly insta

Re: How to report a bug in Debian using reportbug

2011-05-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-05-28 15:06 +0200, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: > If I'm not missing anything, the reportbug package doesn't seem to be > found when you install the minimal system: Not in a minimal system, but in a standard system (the one you get when you don't select anything else during installation). > root@

RE: How to report a bug in Debian using reportbug

2011-05-28 Thread Vlad GURDIGA
If I'm not missing anything, the reportbug package doesn't seem to be found when you install the minimal system: root@debian:~# aptitude install reportbug No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of

using reportbug-ng without an smtp server

2007-08-23 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Hi I don't have an SMTP server running on my computer. I was able to report bugs via reportbug using bugs.debian.org as smtphost. However, I do not see any such option for reportbug-ng. It looks like it needs a properly configured mail client (kmail, evolution etc.,) to report bugs. How to repo