[Reportbug-maint] repotbug not loading ui

[Sandro Tosi]

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:07, Dave Witbrodt <dawitbro at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
>>
>> I have used reportbug successfully a few times with the urwid interface
>> without any problems. However, recently I can't get reportbug to load
>> urwid or even gtk2 ui settings.
>>
>> Tried to look at the bug reports posted on debian but no luck. Even
>> tried reconfiguring and using debug mode but can't figure it out.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> This is reportbug 4.1 with debian squeeze all packages up to date as of
>> this email.
>
> I have also never been able to try out the new gtk2 interface.  When I try
> to get the GUI interface from a menu, nothing happens -- not even an error
> message in a log file.  When I try from an X terminal, I get the text
> interface instead of the GUI interface.
>
> I believe this is a known bug:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524857
>
> I'm waiting for this bug to be closed, and the next release of 'reportbug'
> after than, before pursuing this problem further.  I'm so used to using the
> text interface, anyway, that merely consider the situation annoying.

This is a known issue, already fixed in our git repo; the next upload
will fix this too.

Regards,
-- 
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