[Reportbug-maint] Bug#571955: reportbug: fails to query bugs of linux-2.6

[Sandro Tosi]

block 571955 with 572316
thanks

Hello Michal,
thanks for your report.

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 15:32, Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz>
<michal.suchanek at ruk.cuni.cz> wrote:
> Recently reportbug fails to query the BTS on bugs of linux-2.6.
>
> The symptom is reportbug printing
>
> Querying Debian BTS for reports on linux-2.6 (source)...
>
> then waiting quite a while and printing
>
> Unable to connect to Debian BTS; continue [y|N|?]?
>
> Since it works for other packages this is not a network conection issue.

It's a timeout, 60 seconds, set in reportbug. you can use querybts to
query the BTS for linux-2.6 and the '-O' option of reportbug to report
the bug without doing any external queries.

Regards,
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