[Reportbug-maint] Bug#782319: reportbug: Attribute expanduser missing from python and fail to send bugs

[Corcodel Marian]

On 04/10/2015 03:48 PM, Corcodel Marian wrote:
> Hi
> Error is
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2211, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1081, in main
>     return iface.user_interface()
>   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2203, in user_interface
>     self.options.envelopefrom)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/reportbug/submit.py", line 
> 316, in send_report
>     msgname = os.path.expanduser(outfile) or ('/var/tmp/%s.bug' % 
> package)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 261, in expanduser
>     if not path.startswith('~'):
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'
>
> I not have MTA installed  on machine and when put on configuration:
> smtphost marian1000.go.ro:25
> all is ok.
> On this want to exit wo errors when missing smtphost variable.
> App reportbug is unable to detect mail server and work with def 
> configuration only when MTA is on same machine with app reportbug.
> Cheers
>