Should reportbug be usable?

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:11:55PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 07:47:22PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> Is it possible to use reportbug to report bugs in Ubuntu?
>> 
>> I've tried both Bugzilla and Malone before, but I just like reportbug so
>> much better!
>
>reportbug does 'work', but it sends your bug report to a mailing list,
>rather than to an Ubuntu bug tracking system.  reportbug can't yet integrate
>with Bugzilla or Malone.

So, will bugs reported using reportbug be handled?

>> I did run into a problem using it to report a bug on OpenBox:
>> 
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1656, in ?
>>        main()
>>    File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1647, in main
>>        smtphost, options.smtpuser, options.smtppasswd, options.paranoid)
>>    File "/usr/share/reportbug/reportbug_submit.py", line 415, in send_report
>>        (sysinfo['email'] % 'n'), (sysinfo['email'] % '999999'))
>> TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting
>
>This is a bug in reportbug, which I thought was fixed some time ago.

Fixed in Hoary?

/M

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