Bug#1016009: reportbug: Paranoid mode shows base64 instead of human readible text
Package: reportbug
Version: 7.10.3+deb11u1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: a11y
X-Debbugs-Cc: debbug.reportbug@sideload.33mail.com
Using the --paranoid option shows the text of the bug report before
transmission. In my case, the body is usually base64 encoded, which
means only the headers are readible to a human.
There may be some debugging or academic merit to showing the base64,
but this is not generally what the user is interested in. This can be
improved in a couple ways:
1) After the headers, instead of showing multiple screens full of
base64, just print 1 line like:
«115 lines of base64-encoded text»
and follow that with:
[decoded body]
…
…
«OR»
2) show just the decoded msg, but give an extra option in the prompt
to show the verbatim raw msg for those who are interested.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, 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 2.2.4
ii python3 3.9.2-3
ii python3-reportbug 7.10.3+deb11u1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.14
reportbug recommends no packages.
Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn claws-mail <none>
pn debconf-utils <none>
pn debsums <none>
pn dlocate <none>
ii emacs-bin-common 1:27.1+1-3.1
ii file 1:5.39-3
ii gnupg 2.2.27-2+deb11u2
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.5.13-0+deb11u1
ii python3-urwid 2.1.2-1
pn reportbug-gtk <none>
ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1
Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii apt 2.2.4
ii file 1:5.39-3
ii python3 3.9.2-3
ii python3-apt 2.2.1
ii python3-debian 0.1.39
ii python3-debianbts 3.1.0
ii python3-requests 2.25.1+dfsg-2
ii sensible-utils 0.0.14
python3-reportbug suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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