[Reportbug-maint] Bug#529251: reportbug: doesn't detect errors returned by the mailer (mutt)

[Raphaël Hertzog]

Package: reportbug
Version: 4.2
Severity: normal

I have written a bug report in reportbug but at the end I want to verify
if it would take into account a supplementary header that I added in the
bugreport.

For this I selected to edit my bugreport in a mailer and I chose mutt.
Since everything was ready I didn't edit my mail. But mutt will exit(1)
it you don't edit the draft passed via -H and not send the mail.

The net result is that my bug was not sent and I was back to command line.
reportbug should have told me "mutt returned exit status 1" and should
have displayed again the last action menu so that I could try again.

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
DEBEMAIL="hertzog at debian.org"
EMAIL="raphael at ouaza.com"
DEBFULLNAME="Raphael Hertzog"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/rhertzog/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "4.0"
mode advanced
ui text
realname "Raphaël Hertzog"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                           0.7.21     Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  python                        2.5.4-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-reportbug              4.2        Python modules for interacting wit

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  debconf-utils                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  debsums                       2.0.44     verification of installed package 
pn  dlocate                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  file                          5.03-1     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gnupg                         1.4.9-4    GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.5.5-1.1  High-performance mail transport ag
ii  python-gnome2-extras          2.25.3-2   Extra Python bindings for the GNOM
ii  python-gtk2                   2.14.1-2   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
pn  python-urwid                  <none>     (no description available)
ii  python-vte                    1:0.20.1-1 Python bindings for the VTE widget

-- no debconf information