[Reportbug-maint] Bug#869072: reportbug: The --timeout option doesn't work

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.1.7
Severity: normal

The --timeout option doesn't work. For instance, a strace on

  reportbug --timeout=5 reportbug

shows:

[...]
12405 10:58:53 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(80), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "2001:41c8:1000:21::21:4", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=htonl(0), sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
12405 11:01:03 close(5)                 = 0
12405 11:01:03 socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, IPPROTO_TCP) = 5
12405 11:01:03 ioctl(5, FIONBIO, [1])   = 0
12405 11:01:03 setsockopt(5, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
12405 11:01:03 ioctl(5, FIONBIO, [0])   = 0
12405 11:01:03 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(80), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "2605:bc80:3010:b00:0:deb:166:202", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=htonl(0), sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
12405 11:03:14 close(5)                 = 0
12405 11:03:14 socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, IPPROTO_TCP) = 5
12405 11:03:14 ioctl(5, FIONBIO, [1])   = 0
12405 11:03:14 setsockopt(5, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
12405 11:03:14 ioctl(5, FIONBIO, [0])   = 0
12405 11:03:14 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(80), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "2001:4f8:1:c::15", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=htonl(0), sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
12405 11:05:25 close(5)                 = 0
12405 11:05:25 socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, IPPROTO_TCP) = 5
12405 11:05:25 ioctl(5, FIONBIO, [1])   = 0
12405 11:05:25 setsockopt(5, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
12405 11:05:25 ioctl(5, FIONBIO, [0])   = 0
12405 11:05:25 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(80), sin_addr=inet_addr("140.211.166.202")}, 16) = 0
[...]

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="/home/vinc17/bin/eclient"
PAGER="less -Lis"
VISUAL="/home/vinc17/bin/eclient"
EMAIL="vincent at vinc17.net"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/vinc17/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "2.10"
mode advanced
ui text
realname "Vincent Lefevre"
email "vincent at vinc17.net"
mua mutt
cc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                1.5~beta1
ii  python3            3.5.3-3
ii  python3-reportbug  7.1.7

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                      <none>
pn  debconf-utils                   <none>
ii  debsums                         2.2.2
ii  dlocate                         1.07+nmu1
ii  emacs24-bin-common              24.5+1-11+local2
ii  emacs25-bin-common              25.2+1-2
ii  file                            1:5.30-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                  3.22.16-1
pn  gir1.2-vte-2.91                 <none>
ii  gnupg                           2.1.18-8
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]  3.2.2-1
ii  python3-gi                      3.22.0-2+b1
ii  python3-gi-cairo                3.22.0-2+b1
pn  python3-gtkspellcheck           <none>
pn  python3-urwid                   <none>
ii  xdg-utils                       1.1.1-1

Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                1.5~beta1
ii  file               1:5.30-1
ii  python3            3.5.3-3
ii  python3-debian     0.1.30
ii  python3-debianbts  2.6.1
ii  python3-requests   2.12.4-1

python3-reportbug suggests no packages.

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