On 2024-12-11 15:27, Boyuan Yang wrote:
I would like to add that while self-sustained SMTP facilities is useful, the reportbug tool has a strong assumption: it assumes that the bug reporter must be using Debian (or one of the Debian derivative, though we know it won't work well) when reporting the bug. This is an overly strong requirement that we as a project should avoid.
That is not a requirement for bug reporting - it works by plain email. That's a requirement for reportbug to send it off directly - and the information it collects is valuable. reportbug even offers to prepare a report and you can put it someplace else.
I don't think we need to collect arbitrary requests from non-Debian users. We are not the feature request place of last resort, the bug reports should pertain primarily to the Debian integration. (Some stuff to be forwarded upstream is fine.)
Kind regards Philipp Kern
