Re: reporting bugs and MIME
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 11:26:08AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> am i correct in thinking that i just read somewhere that the new BTS
> can handle MIME messages?
As far as I know the only thing that's changed is that its web interface
displays them slightly better. This is very welcome, but it still has
bugs in the way it glues messages together, for one thing (see -policy
recently).
> if so, then i should file a bug against reportbug itself so it stops
> screaming
>
> NOTE: MANY MUAs WILL ATTEMPT TO SEND MIME-ENCODED MESSAGES TO THE
> DEBIAN BTS. THE DEBIAN BTS CURRENTLY HAS BUGS IN ITS HANDLING OF
> MIME (SEE #36813 et al.). YOU SHOULD NOT USE MIME ATTACHMENTS IN
> YOUR REPORT.
>
> on startup.
Or you could just use a newer version of reportbug ...
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
Reply to: