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Re: X-Debbugs- headers



Hi Don!

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:37:13 +0100, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Luca Capello wrote:
>> Never tested, but FWIU in the page I linked [1], you can use the
>> pseudo-headers [2]. So, again, never tested, something like the
>> following should do the work:
>> =====
>> To: submit@bugs.debian.org
>> From: john.doe@mail.com
>> Subject: ITP foo -- a bar viewer
>> 
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> This is incorrect. You need to use
>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Thank you for the correction.

> You can use any of the X-Debbugs-... headers in the psuedoheaders,
> but they must be prefixed with X-Debbugs-. The converse is not true.

So a question arises: which are the other X-Debbugs-... headers?  The
reportbug manual mentions only X-Debbugs-CC, while /etc/reportbug.conf
contains a commented line for X-Debbugs-No-Ack.

Thus, I (erroneously) thought that Package: & Co. were available also
as X-Debbugs-..., which seems to not be the case.  As English isn't my
mother language, is it me or the section at [1] isn't so clear?
Especially the last sentence:

  Finally, if your MUA doesn't allow you to edit the headers, you can
  set the various X-Debbugs- headers in the pseudo-headers.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting#miscpseudoheaders

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