Bug#1014871: reportbug: is being confusing with the -r option
Package: reportbug
Version: 11.5.0
Severity: normal
after submitting a bug failed, i changed my mta config, and subsequently
ran "reportbug -r /tmp/reportbug-..." as instructed. as the mail was
already in its final state, i immediately exited the editor, which lead
to this weird interaction:
No changes were made in the editor.
Report will be sent to Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Submit this report on reportbug (e to edit) [y|n|a|c|E|i|l|m|p|q|d|t|?]? y
Report is unchanged. Edit this report or quit [E|q|s|?]? s
Sending empty report anyway...
Sending message via /usr/sbin/sendmail...
firstly, in the given case it's rather pointless (and therefore
confusing) to say that the report is unchanged. to give an accurate
account, it would have to create a pristine report template from scratch
and compare the contents.
secondly, it says "sending empty report", which would be confusing even
if this wasn't a perfectly finalized report, as it actually means
"sending unmodified generated report" or some such.
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="sensible-editor"
PAGER="sensible-pager"
EMAIL="Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>"
INTERFACE="text"
** /home/ossi/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "2.3"
mode advanced
ui text
no-cc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 2.5.1
ii python3 3.10.4-1+b1
ii python3-reportbug 11.5.0
ii sensible-utils 0.0.17
reportbug recommends no packages.
Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn claws-mail <none>
ii debconf 1.5.79
ii debsums 3.0.2
pn dlocate <none>
pn emacs-bin-common <none>
ii file 1:5.41-4
ii gnupg 2.2.35-3
ii masqmail [mail-transport-agent] 0.3.4-1
ii python3-urwid 2.1.2-2+b1
pn reportbug-gtk <none>
ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1
Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii apt 2.5.1
ii file 1:5.41-4
ii python3 3.10.4-1+b1
ii python3-apt 2.3.0+b1
ii python3-debian 0.1.44
ii python3-debianbts 3.2.3
ii python3-requests 2.27.1+dfsg-1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.17
python3-reportbug suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/reportbug.conf changed:
submit
query-bts
check-available
cc
config-files
compress
verify
-- no debconf information
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