[Reportbug-commits] [SCM] Reportbug - reports bugs in the Debian distribution branch, master, updated. 4.9-120-g558dae3

[Sandro Tosi]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 558dae35197c9546ecaa0c595d0283f50d982c53
Author: Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Aug 1 20:03:45 2010 +0200

    clarified the usage terms for reportbug.debian.org

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7f22c1c..bd76b6a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,8 +11,10 @@ reportbug (4.12.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * bin/reportbug, man/reportbug.1
     - support globbing when attachments are allowed (so both command-line args
       and sub-menus); thanks to Josh Triplett for the report: Closes: #452648
+  * doc/README.Users
+    - clarified the usage terms for reportbug.debian.org
 
- -- Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>  Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:34:59 +0200
+ -- Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>  Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:02:10 +0200
 
 reportbug (4.12.4) unstable; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/doc/README.Users b/doc/README.Users
index a1f05de..6e79aa3 100644
--- a/doc/README.Users
+++ b/doc/README.Users
@@ -122,4 +122,33 @@ respond (or it's stale) and a timeout is triggered. By default this
 timeout is set to 1 minute; so in case of such an error, if you're
 unsure that it's a clear network outage, you can try to pass
 `--timeout <secs>' to either `reportbug' or `querybts' and see if it
-solves the issue.
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+solves the issue.
+
+reportbug.debian.org SMTP Host Service Usage Policy
+===================================================
+
+Since Dec 2008 (see NEWS entry about it), the Debian project provides
+a convenient SMTP host specifically aimed for reportbug:
+reportbug.debian.org.
+
+This host is useful in situations like:
+
+ - the machine doesn't have a local MTA to forward emails;
+ - no SMTP server is known;
+ - the usual SMTP server is not working/unusable (different network);
+ - etc.
+
+Please keep in mind that this service has some limitations:
+
+ - only 5 reports per hour are allowed (technically, 5 connections to
+   the server, even if they don't result in bugs submission);
+ - relay is not allowed.
+
+The last rule, in particular, doesn't allow to send a carbon-copy of
+the report to the submitter (the same email sent to the BTS to open
+the bug), and X-Debbugs-CC has to be used instead (that will send an
+email after BTS processing).
+
+Let us also clarify that this service is in no way controlled by
+reportbug maintainers, so in case any questions/complains/information
+requests you have to contact owner at bugs.debian.org .
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