[Reportbug-maint] Bug#543281: stty ioctl problems with debian-el again

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

Using 'M-x debian-bug' from Emacs recently (last weeks or two) started
including these lines at the beginning of the *mail* buffer:

  Press ENTER to continue
  stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device
  stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device

  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
  MIME-Version: 1.0
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
  From: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy at mrao.cam.ac.uk>
  To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
  Subject: none
  X-Debbugs-Cc: none, Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy at mit.edu>

  stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device

I think it's the same problem that I reported in #502317 (but it had
been working for a while).  It doesn't happen when reporting bugs
against every package.  For example, it works fine if I try to report a
bug against 'reportbug' ("M-x debian-bug<CR>Preportbug<CR>") or against
'debian-el', but not if I try to report a bug against 'texlive-metapost'
("M-x debian-bug<CR>Ptexlive-metapost<CR><CR>missing /usr/bin/etex<CR>")

[That's an actual 'texlive-metapost' bug, which I've just reported to
the maintainer by regular email.]

For completeness, here is the package information that debian-el gives
for 'reportbug' and for 'debian-el'.

Package: reportbug
Version: 4.9
Severity: normal



-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="emacsclient"
EMAIL="sanjoy at mit.edu"

** /home/sanjoy/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.18ubuntu1"
mode standard
ui text
email "sanjoy at mrao.cam.ac.uk"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                           0.7.25     Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  python                        2.5.4-4    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-reportbug              4.9        Python modules for interacting wit

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  debconf-utils                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  debsums                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  dlocate                       1.02       fast alternative to dpkg -L and dp
ii  exim4                         4.71-2     metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.71-2     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  file                          5.03-5     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gnupg                         1.4.10-2   GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  python-gtk2                   2.16.0-1   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
pn  python-gtkspell               <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-urwid                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-vte                    <none>     (no description available)
ii  xdg-utils                     1.0.2-6.1  desktop integration utilities from

-- no debconf information


Package: debian-el
Version: 31.3
Severity: normal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages debian-el depends on:
ii  bzip2                     1.0.5-3        high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  dpkg                      1.15.5.4       Debian package management system
ii  emacs [emacsen]           23.1+1-5       The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
ii  emacs22 [emacsen]         22.3+1-1.1     The GNU Emacs editor
ii  emacs23 [emacsen]         23.1+1-5       The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ us
ii  file                      5.03-5         Determines file type using "magic"
ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in 
ii  reportbug                 4.9            reports bugs in the Debian distrib

Versions of packages debian-el recommends:
ii  dlocate                       1.02       fast alternative to dpkg -L and dp
ii  groff-base                    1.20.1-6   GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii  wget                          1.12-1.1   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages debian-el suggests:
ii  gnus                   5.11+v0.10.dfsg-1 A versatile news and mail reader f

-- no debconf information