Package: bitlbee
Version: 3.5.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
I'll start with the Debian-specific problem.
* bug 1 (manpage) *
The /man bitlbee/ cmd shows:
BUGS
Of course there are bugs. If you find some, please report them at
http://bugs.bitlbee.org/.
Perhaps that should also mention the Debian bug tracker as well?
* bug 2 (upstream bug tracker broken) *
There is also an upstream bug that I was unable to report because the
CAPTCHA for http://bugs.bitlbee.org/ is broken. I could clearly read
the CAPTCHA but all of my solutions got rejected. It's very
frustrating b/c I took the time to write out a report not knowing it
would be subject to a CAPTCHA, much less a broken one. Please also
update the manpage to warn users that http://bugs.bitlbee.org/ does
not support account creation and requires a CAPTCHA.
* bug 3 (manpage) *
Bitlbee saves data to /var/lib/bitlbee by default, which is important
for users to realize when migrating or backing up systems. Yet this
information is somewhat buried in the documentation for the "-d"
option. IMO it should be louder, and follow the convention of having
a FILES section in the manpage.
Bug 220 is loosely related. I don't know what is meant by
"configtime", but that bug report should perhaps be handled together
with this one.
* bug 4 (upstream bug tracker form is out of date) *
I'm using version 3.5.1-1, which is not in the list of this bug reporting form.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=1509983846 WARNING
torsocks[26270]: [syscall] Unsupported syscall number 217. Denying the call (in
tsocks_syscall() at syscall.c:488)
UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=1509983846 WARNING torsocks[26272]:
[syscall] Unsupported syscall number 217. Denying the call (in tsocks_syscall()
at syscall.c:488)
UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages bitlbee depends on:
ii bitlbee-common 3.5.1-1
ii debianutils 4.8.1.1
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.21-stable-3
ii libgcrypt20 1.7.6-2+deb9u2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2
ii libgnutls30 3.5.8-5+deb9u3
bitlbee recommends no packages.
bitlbee suggests no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
