• Bug#1104720: Allow sending mails to control@b.d.o for use with bts comm

    From Pirate Praveen@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 5 10:00:01 2025
    Package: reportbug
    Version: 13.1.0
    Severity: important
    X-Debbugs-Cc: praveen@debian.org
    Control: block 1104690

    bts command from devscripts package is complimentary to reportbug. But currently it needs mta configured or mutt to send mails. It'd help a lot if bts can use reportbug.debian.org smtp server so it can send mails without configuring an mta or smarthost.

    When running bts --smtp-host=reportbug.debian.org it says sending mails to control@bugs.debian.org is not allowed.

    It'd lower the participation barrier hugely if bts can send mails without additional configurations by default like reportbug.


    -- Package-specific info:
    ** Environment settings:
    INTERFACE=gtk

    ** /home/furios/.reportbugrc:
    reportbug_version "13.0.2"
    mode expert
    ui text
    realname "Pirate Praveen"
    email "praveen@debian.org"
    no-cc
    list-cc-me
    smtphost reportbug.debian.org

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: trixie/sid
    APT prefers testing
    APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
    Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

    Kernel: Linux 4.19.325-furiphone-krypton (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
    Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_WARN
    Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
    Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

    Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
    ii apt 3.0.0
    ii python3 3.13.2-2
    ii python3-reportbug 13.1.0
    ii sensible-utils 0.0.24

    reportbug recommends no packages.

    Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
    pn claws-mail <none>
    ii debconf 1.5.91
    pn debsums <none>
    pn default-mta | postfix | exim4 | mail-transport-agent <none>
    pn dlocate <none>
    pn emacs-bin-common <none>
    ii file 1:5.45-3+b1
    ii gnupg 2.2.46-6
    pn python3-urwid <none>
    ii reportbug-gtk 13.1.0
    ii xdg-utils 1.2.1-2

    Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
    ii apt 3.0.0
    ii file 1:5.45-3+b1
    ii python3 3.13.2-2
    ii python3-apt 3.0.0
    ii python3-debian 1.0.1
    ii python3-debianbts 4.1.1
    ii python3-requests 2.32.3+dfsg-4
    ii sensible-utils 0.0.24

    python3-reportbug suggests no packages.

    -- no debconf information

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