[Reportbug-maint] Bug#502866: closed by Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> (Re: Bug#502866: wishlist ?)

[Lars Nooden]

Sandro, I have filed a bug about it.
See the subject line above where it says Bug #502866.

SOAP might be overkill.  Take the same file that is being pipe to mail
and instead use wget to send it to a server using HTTP's PUT:

	wget --post-file=bug-report-file.txt \
	 http://bugs.debian.org/bggrff.pl

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> 
> Subject:
> Re: Bug#502866: wishlist ?
> From:
> Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>
> Date:
> Mon, 4 Jan 2010 10:09:14 +0100
> To:
> 502866-done at bugs.debian.org
> 
> To:
> 502866-done at bugs.debian.org
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 20:42, Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> wrote:
>> 2009/4/23 chaica <chaica at ohmytux.com>:
>>> It seems Lars requires a new feature for reportbug to use http in place
>>> of actual smtp that reportbug uses. I think this bug report should go to
>>> the wishlist.
>> Well, I don't want to add any such feature (file a bug without using
>> an email) if bugs.d.o does not support it.
>>
>> Once we will have a method to create a bug on bts, provided by the bts
>> itself, without using an email (for example using the SOAP protocol,
>> with a read/write interface), I'd be happy to use it.
>>
>> And I've suggest Lars to file a bug about it. I don't know if he did,
>> and/or the result, let's see if some news will come in the future :)
> 
> No news comes, and (as said before) this "alternative method for
> submitting bugs not relying on mails (SOAP f.e.)" should be provided
> by the BTS, until then, I'm not going to implement anything in
> reportbug. Hence, closing this report.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
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> 
> Subject:
> reportbug cannot work without local MTA or remote smtp host
> From:
> Lars Noodén <lars at umich.edu>
> Date:
> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:58:47 +0300
> To:
> submit at bugs.debian.org
> 
> To:
> submit at bugs.debian.org
> 
> 
> Package: reportbugs
> Version: 3.45
> Severity: severe
> 
> Report bug could use wget to POST bug reports via HTTP
> 
> Currently it requires either a local or remote MTA.  In the old days,
> these were ubiquitous.  Nowadays, they are rare and going  through the
> trouble of either digging out the login info for the remote MTAs or
> adding, configuring, using and removing a local MTA is an awfully high
> barrier.
> 
> Wget is part of the core distro as is gpg.  MTAs are not.
> HTTP 1.1 POST is supported in wget.
> 
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