[Reportbug-maint] Bug#391453: closed by Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> (Re: reportbug: Use S/MIME for signing reports)

[Adam Porter]

I'm sorry, I think I meant to suggest using PGP/MIME, which sends the
signature in a separate message part, rather than inline signing.
Here's some info:

http://www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 05:54, Debian Bug Tracking System
<owner at bugs.debian.org> wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the reportbug package:
>
> #391453: reportbug: Use S/MIME for signing reports
>
> It has been closed by Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>.
>
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>
> To: 391453-done at bugs.debian.org, 391453-submitter at bugs.debian.org
> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:52:54 +0100
> Subject: Re: reportbug: Use S/MIME for signing reports
> Hello,
> thanks for our report.
>
> AFAIUI, S/MIME requires a certificate to be used. On the other hand,
> every DD needs a GPG key, and gpg is the de-facto standard in debian
> to guarantee authentication, so I don't think it worth the burden to
> implement S/MIME in reportbug, hence I'm closing this report.
>
> But, if there are some formatting issue when sending signed bug
> repots, then that's a bug in reportbug and we'll fix it. Please file
> another bug with example and detailed explanation of what's happening.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
> My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
> Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Adam Porter <adam at alphapapa.net>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:51:00 -0500
> Subject: reportbug: Use S/MIME for signing reports
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 3.29.5
> Severity: wishlist
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Sometimes inline signing creates an invalid signature.  I'm guessing it's because of word-wrapping, or inserting spaces into lines that
> start with several dashes.  I think using S/MIME would fix this problem.  It also makes for prettier reports in the bug tracker.
>
> - -- Package-specific info:
> ** Environment settings:
> INTERFACE="text"
>
> - -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>  APT prefers testing
>  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-k7
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
>
> Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
> ii  python                        2.4.3-11   An interactive high-level object-o
> ii  python-central                0.5.5      register and build utility for Pyt
>
> Versions of packages reportbug recommends:
> pn  python-cjkcodecs | python-ico <none>     (no description available)
>
> - -- no debconf information
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQFFJntk5+GdyTDsrJsRAgeqAKCFH7yFCp2lvN5osfHPKeg8s+O+BACeOfud
> hZUxNwwlO1Fe53il/6Ov59Y=
> =QsiA
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>
>