[Reportbug-maint] Bug#530685: reportbug crashes attempting to ask the user for his smtp's password

[Sandro Tosi]

severity 530685 important
thanks

Hello Arian,

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 00:45, Arian Sanusi <arian at sanusi.de> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 4.4
> Justification: renders package unusable

wrong: it make the GTK2 gui crash not the whole program, using text ui
it will work, hence downgraded to important.

> Severity: grave
>
> reportbug crashes when attempting to file bug report email via smtp,
> discovers that it needs a password
> and attempting to ask the user because the ui-class does not have the
> called method, as the traceback shows:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1877, in <module>
>   main()
>  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 895, in main
>   return iface.user_interface()
>  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1869, in user_interface
>   smtphost, self.options.smtpuser, self.options.smtppasswd,
> self.options.paranoid)
>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/reportbug/submit.py", line 374, in
> send_report
>   smtppasswd = ui.get_password(
>
> This renders it hardly usable for anyone attempting to file bugs this
> way as he has to take another way

'--ui text' command line switch (or 'ui text' in ~/.reportbugrc) would
fix this "hard" problem.


Regards,
-- 
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