Bug#925423: elpa-debian-el: unable to report a bug in package reportbug

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Salman Mohammadi <salman@smoha.org> writes:

> Package: elpa-debian-el
> Version: 37.8
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I'm unable to report a bug which is affecting the package *reportbug*.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> 1. M-x debian-bug
> 2. Report a bug for a [P]ackage or [F]ile: P
> 3. package name: reportbug
> 4. Severity: normal
> 5. (Very) brief summary of problem: dummy bug
>
>
> but When I click on *Send Message*, a new window in Mozilla Thunderbird
> will be shown with the following content:
>
>
> --=-=-=
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 7.5.2
> Severity: normal

This seems to be an upstream bug in emacs. What is your setting of the
variable message-send-mail-function (you can check with C-h v)?

If, as I suspect, it is message-send-mail-with-mailclient, then I think
I understand the problem you are seeing. Basically that function only
supports text/plain messages, while debian-bug sends it MIME.

If possible, I'd suggest using a different value of
message-send-mail-function (I think it's initialized from
send-mail-function).

d