Bug#1070881: reportbug: Provide an option to skip loading configuration files
On 12.05.2024 23.11, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> Nis Martensen <nis.martensen@mailbox.org> writes:
>
>> On 11.05.2024 08.23, Xiyue Deng wrote:
>>> I'd like to propose adding an option to skip loading configuration files
>>> (/etc/reportbug.conf and ~/.reportbugrc). The use case is for external
>>> programs that runs reportbug (e.g. debian-bug in elpa-debian-el) which
>>> provides its own command line switches and have an assumption on the
>>> output. When a user set some custom options, notably CC related ones,
>>> it may interfere with how X-Debbugs-Cc is handled and broke some of the
>>> assumptions of external tools (see https://bugs.debian.org/1032662).
>>
>> Thanks for the report. Did you intend to link to a different bug as your
>> example? The one you cite does not seem to be related to reportbug.
>
> Ah, indeed. I was trying to refer to https://bugs.debian.org/1069908.
> Thanks for the correction!
Thanks for providing the example. To me it does not give convincing
evidence that an option to skip loading configuration files is a good
idea. Even with such an option one would still be able to get unintended
results by calling reportbug with buggy arguments. ;)
Can you please clarify what specific assumptions of external tools you
have in mind? Would a command line option to override a "list-cc-me"
specified in the configuration file be sufficient to solve the problem?
Is this an actual problem in your case?
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