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reportbug must not default to sending bugs to Debian

Bug #229847 reported by Lucas Nussbaum on 2008-05-13

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #194248: Please remove debreaper (universe) from the archives. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	reportbug (Ubuntu)	Invalid	High	Daniel Hahler	Ubuntu ubuntu-8.04.1

Bug Description

Binary package hint: reportbug

Hi,

Since the release of hardy, we (Debian) have seen several bugs reported by Ubuntu users to the Debian BTS.

It seems that a change made by Daniel Hahler in reportbug 3.39ubuntu2 caused reportbug to default to sending bugs to the Debian BTS.

Sharing bugs between distros is a good idea, of course. But that's clearly not the right way to do it.

Of course, on our side, we could reject mail based on ^X-Reportbug-Version: .*ubuntu, but that doesn't sound the right way to solve this either.

Thank you,

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2008-05-17

Changed in reportbug:
milestone:	none → ubuntu-8.04.1

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) on 2008-05-17

Changed in reportbug:
importance:	Undecided → High

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote on 2008-05-17:

I cannot see how the fix for bug 114917 (debdiff available there) could have caused this, but will investigate.

Changed in reportbug:
assignee:	nobody → blueyed
status:	New → Incomplete

Lucas Nussbaum (lucas) on 2008-05-20

Changed in reportbug:
status:	Incomplete → New

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote on 2008-05-26:

I've now tested reportbug in a Ubuntu Hardy virtual machine and it says:
"""Report will be sent to "Ubuntu Bug Tracking System" <email address hidden>"""
I've confirmed this, using the "--paranoid" switch, which displays the message including all headers before sending it.

Any chance you're confusing it with reportbug-ng? (bug 175508)
Can you point me at bug reports that have been sent by accident, using the default reportbug config?

Changed in reportbug:
assignee:	blueyed → nobody
status:	New → Incomplete

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Lucas Nussbaum (lucas) wrote on 2008-05-26:

see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480920 , for example. Mmmh, maybe it's a medibuntu specific change. But the mail headers say:
X-Reportbug-Version: 3.39ubuntu3 (debreaper 0.2.1)

The strange thing is that there's also a:
X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote on 2008-05-26:

This is a report from debreaper, which has been removed in Hardy - just because of sending reports to Debian.
debreaper appears to use reportbug, but only e.g. reportbug.generate_blank_report, which obviously does not contain the Ubuntu related changes.
See bug 194248 (the removal request), where I'm marking this a duplicate of.

Please re-open the bug in case I'm missing anything.