reportbug fails to report bugs

[Robert Collins]

Report is unchanged. Edit this report or quit [E|q|s|?]? s
Sending empty report anyway...
Sending message via /usr/sbin/sendmail...

Bug report submitted to: "Ubuntu Bug Tracking System" <email address hidden>
Copies sent to:
  "Robert Collins" <email address hidden>

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1656, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1647, in main
    smtphost, options.smtpuser, options.smtppasswd, options.paranoid)
  File "/usr/share/reportbug/reportbug_submit.py", line 415, in send_report
    (sysinfo['email'] % 'n'), (sysinfo['email'] % '999999'))
TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting

[Andrew Mitchell (ajmitch)]

reportbug really isn't too useful for ubuntu, as bugs should get filed into bugzilla or malone. As malone now has an email interface, we can write some script to take advantage of this, which I've started.

[GerhardGaußling (ggrubbish-web)]

Good point, Andrew! Thank you for working on that!
I love reportbug in debian, and I want to submit bug reports with that tool, as soon as it's possible.

Kind regards

Gerhard

Please merge with bug #583

[Ryan Lovett (ryan-spacecoaster)]

+1

I'd just like to say that reportbug is a very useful command and having a working replacement that interfaces with Ubuntu databases would be wonderful. It might even be best to not package reportbug for Ubuntu, or at least rename it, since it does not operate the same way Debian's does.