• Bug#1104690: devscripts: allow sending mails using all the methods prov

    From Pirate Praveen@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 4 19:50:01 2025
    Package: devscripts
    Version: 2.25.11
    Severity: important
    X-Debbugs-Cc: praveen@debian.org

    Dear Maintainer,


    Currently bts only support mutt as an mua or configuring sendmail. reportbug has more options like using reportbug.debian.org as SMTP server, choosing between installed mua like thunderbird or choosing xdg-email).

    If we can use --smtp-host=reportbug.debian.org, that already helps a lot, but it does not support sending mails to control@bugs.debian.org

    $ bts --smtp-host=reportbug.debian.org user debian-release@lists.debian.org bts: failed to set SMTP recipient control@bugs.debian.org
    ()

    If we request reportbug.debian.org maintainers they might allow sending to control@bugs.debian.org as well.

    Since people using thunderbird (or another mua) already maintains smtp server configurations in thunderbird (or another mua), having to configure it again for bts does not make sense - especially since reportbug already allows reusing an already configured smtp server via choosing preferred mua.


    -- Package-specific info:

    --- /etc/devscripts.conf ---
    Empty.

    --- ~/.devscripts ---
    DEBSIGN_KEYID=D30863E26020E543F4719A838F53E0193B294B75

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: trixie/sid
    APT prefers unstable
    APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

    Kernel: Linux 6.12.22-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
    Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
    Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
    LSM: AppArmor: enabled

    Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
    ii dpkg-dev 1.22.18
    ii file 1:5.46-5
    ii gpg 2.4.7-17
    ii gpg-agent 2.4.7-17
    ii gpgv 2.4.7-17
    ii libdpkg-perl 1.22.18
    ii libfile-dirlist-perl 0.05-3
    ii libfile-homedir-perl 1.006-2
    ii libfile-touch-perl 0.12-2
    ii libmoo-perl 2.005005-1
    ii libwww-perl 6.78-1
    ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
    ii perl 5.40.
  • From Holger Levsen@21:1/5 to Pirate Praveen on Mon May 5 10:50:01 2025
    control: severity -1 normal
    thanks

    On Sun, May 04, 2025 at 11:15:52PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
    Currently bts only support mutt as an mua or configuring sendmail. reportbug has more options like [...]

    thank you for filing this bug report, I agree this should be fixed, I just think a missing feature (so not a bug even!) in one of the dozens tools shipped by devscripts, doesn't warrant important severity, thus adjusting accordingly.

    & patches much welcome, as usual. :)


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    cheers,
    Holger

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