[Reportbug-maint] Bug#583292: reportbug --configure shows an unusable prompt for configuring the smtp settings

[Elie De Brauwer]

Package: reportbug
Version: 4.12.2
Severity: minor
Tags: sid patch

When I run reportbug --configure here it shows a nice gtk frontend, if I follow
the following steps:

* Reportbug is a tool .... press continue
* select standard ... continue
* gtk2 interface ... continue
* reportbug direct internet connection ... yes
* enter real name ... continue
* enter e-mail ... continue
* Do you have a MTA prompt ... select NO

At this point I have a window with a label and a textbox and the label reads:

"Just press ENTER if ou don't have one or don't know" and an empty textbox


this is obviously the 'enter your smtp server' prompt. If we look at
/usr/bin/reportbug lines 583 till 590:

        ewrite('Please enter the name of your SMTP host.  Usually it\'s called
'
            'something like "mail.example.org" or "smtp.example.org". '
            'If you need to use a different port than default, use the '
            '<host>:<port> alternative format.\n\n')
        smtphost = ui.get_string(
            'Just press ENTER if you don\'t have one or don\'t know.',
            options=opts, empty_ok=True, force_prompt=True)
        if smtphost:

The ui.get_string() functions properly but the ewrite never appears. So I just
changed this block to:

        smtphost = ui.get_string(
            'Please enter the name of your SMTP host.  Usually it\'s called '
            'something like "mail.example.org" or "smtp.example.org". '
            'If you need to use a different port than default, use the '
            '<host>:<port> alternative format.\n\n'
            'Just press ENTER if you don\'t have one or don\'t know.',
            options=opts, empty_ok=True, force_prompt=True)
        if smtphost:

which works in gtk mode.



-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="gtk2"

** /home/edb/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "4.12.2"
mode standard
ui gtk2
email "eliedebrauwer at gmail.com"
smtphost "smtp.gmail.com:587"
smtpuser "eliedebrauwer at gmail.com"
smtptls

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                           0.7.25.3   Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  python                        2.5.4-9    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-reportbug              4.12.2     Python modules for interacting wit

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  debconf-utils        <none>              (no description available)
pn  debsums              <none>              (no description available)
pn  dlocate              <none>              (no description available)
ii  emacs23-bin-common   23.2+1-2            The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii  exim4-daemon-light [ 4.71-4              lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  file                 5.04-2              Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gnupg                1.4.10-4            GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  python-gtk2          2.17.0-2            Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
pn  python-gtkspell      <none>              (no description available)
pn  python-urwid         <none>              (no description available)
ii  python-vte           1:0.24.1-1          Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii  xdg-utils            1.0.2+cvs20100307-1 desktop integration utilities from

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/reportbug.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information
-------------- next part --------------
--- /usr/bin/reportbug	2010-05-12 19:22:23.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/bin/reportbug.fixed	2010-05-26 21:53:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -580,11 +580,11 @@
         opts = []
         if options.smtphost:
             opts += [options.smtphost]
-        ewrite('Please enter the name of your SMTP host.  Usually it\'s called '
+        smtphost = ui.get_string(
+            'Please enter the name of your SMTP host.  Usually it\'s called '
             'something like "mail.example.org" or "smtp.example.org". '
             'If you need to use a different port than default, use the '
-            '<host>:<port> alternative format.\n\n')
-        smtphost = ui.get_string(
+            '<host>:<port> alternative format.\n\n'
             'Just press ENTER if you don\'t have one or don\'t know.',
             options=opts, empty_ok=True, force_prompt=True)
         if smtphost: