Re: question - howto use postfix+reportbug in order to send bug reports to debian.org
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:54:39 +0530
"shirish agarwal" <shirishag75@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am using Ubuntu 7.04 (please don't laugh) and at times I do
> report bugs. Sometimes I see that the bug-report is concerning
> upstream (some issue, usability bug or feature-list wish). Unlike
> bugs.launchpad.netwhich ubuntu has, the only way I came to know is one
> can report bugs to
> debian through an application called reportbug. After installing
> reportbug, making my bug-report came to know further that it needs an
> MTA. Digging further came to know that there are only 2 , postfix &
> sendmail. As I am reading my mail on the web (Gmail) hence didn't no
> need to have an e-mail client (or MUA) hence became non-plussed. I am
> sure I am neither the 1st one to have this problem nor the last one.
> Hence instead of just posting for the howto of this in the mailing
> list, also have published it in ubuntuforums.org
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2463091#post2463091 . The
> main reason behind doing all this is there are not enough bug
> triagers around. Something like 30 for all the bugs which come
> around. So there is a possibility that such bugs do not get reported.
> Hence if we have a direct route to u guys it would make things that
> much more easier for all around. So post the answer at the forum
> itself so people can use it. There is also possibility of adding the
> whole thing to a wiki so people can use it to make bug-reports to
> debian as & when needed. Less stress for everybody concerned. Cheers.
Don't know about Ubuntu but Debian (usually) installs exim4 as MTA by
default. Best to direct Ubuntu questions to Ubuntu lists as I believe
they base their distro on Debian unstable. That is unstable as in
'likely to break at any time'
Regards, John
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