Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, awpguy@acs.ucalgary.ca (Andy W.P. Guy):
Bug#9214; Package dpkg-ftp.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgawpguy@acs.ucalgary.ca (Andy W.P. Guy)  Subject: Bug#9214: dpkg-ftp guess email address wrongly Reply-To: Richard Kettlewell , 9214@bugs.debian.org Resent-From: Richard Kettlewell Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: awpguy@acs.ucalgary.ca (Andy W.P. Guy) Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:33:01 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj@debian.org X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg-ftp X-Debian-PR-Keywords: X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org Received: via spool by bugs@bugs.debian.org id=B.86232732912810 (code B ref -1); Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:33:01 GMT From: Richard Kettlewell Message-Id: Date: Tue, 29 Apr 97 16:17:34 +0100 (BST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: submit@bugs.debian.org X-Mailer: VM 6.30 under Emacs 19.34.1 Package: dpkg-ftp Version: 1.4.8 As you can see dpkg-ftp guessed my email address wrongly; however /etc/mailname contains `elmail.co.uk', which (unless policy has changed an awful lot recently!) would provide a better basis to guess from. ttfn/rjk : muskogee; really dselect You must supply an ftp site, use of passive mode, username, password, path to the debian directory,list of distributions you are interested in and place to download the binary package files to (relative to /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp). Eg: ftp site: ftp.debian.org passive: y username: anonymous password: richard@muskogee.elmail.co.uk ftp dir: /debian distributions: stable non-free contrib download dir: debian Enter ftp site []: sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk Use passive mode [y]: Enter username [anonymous]: ftp If you're using anonymous ftp to retrieve files, enter your email address for use as a password. Otherwise enter "?" and dpkg-ftp will prompt you each time. Enter password [richard@muskogee.elmail.co.uk]: richard@elmail.co.uk Enter debian directory [/debian]:   Acknowledgement sent to Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to awpguy@acs.ucalgary.ca (Andy W.P. Guy).   -t  From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Ian Jackson) To: Richard Kettlewell Subject: Bug#9214: Acknowledgement (was: dpkg-ftp guess email address wrongly) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): awpguy@acs.ucalgary.ca (Andy W.P. Guy) If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to 9214@bugs.debian.org (and *not* to bugs@bugs.debian.org). Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, Debian bug tracking system)   Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 29 Apr 1997 15:22:09 +0000 Received: (qmail 12753 invoked from network); 29 Apr 1997 15:22:06 -0000 Received: from tlingit.elmail.co.uk (193.122.233.1) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 29 Apr 1997 15:21:59 -0000 Received: from mojave.elmail.co.uk (mojave.elmail.co.uk [193.112.20.14]) by tlingit.elmail.co.uk with ESMTP id QAA13770 (2.1.1h-8.8.5/2.1); Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:25:29 +0100 (BST) Received: (richard@localhost) by mojave.elmail.co.uk id QAA11961 (2.1.1h-8.8.5/2.1a); Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:17:35 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Kettlewell Message-Id: Date: Tue, 29 Apr 97 16:17:34 +0100 (BST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: dpkg-ftp guess email address wrongly X-Mailer: VM 6.30 under Emacs 19.34.1 Package: dpkg-ftp Version: 1.4.8 As you can see dpkg-ftp guessed my email address wrongly; however /etc/mailname contains `elmail.co.uk', which (unless policy has changed an awful lot recently!) would provide a better basis to guess from. ttfn/rjk : muskogee; really dselect You must supply an ftp site, use of passive mode, username, password, path to the debian directory,list of distributions you are interested in and place to download the binary package files to (relative to /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp). Eg: ftp site: ftp.debian.org passive: y username: anonymous password: richard@muskogee.elmail.co.uk ftp dir: /debian distributions: stable non-free contrib download dir: debian Enter ftp site []: sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk Use passive mode [y]: Enter username [anonymous]: ftp If you're using anonymous ftp to retrieve files, enter your email address for use as a password. Otherwise enter "?" and dpkg-ftp will prompt you each time. Enter password [richard@muskogee.elmail.co.uk]: richard@elmail.co.uk Enter debian directory [/debian]: