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 <ow...@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 <mo...@debian.org>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Sandro Tosi > <mo...@debian.org> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 391453: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391453 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> > To: 391453-d...@bugs.debian.org, 391453-submit...@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 > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Adam Porter <a...@alphapapa.net> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@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----- > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
