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Bug#1107655: installation-report.template: Warn about mail size limit

From Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject Bug#1107655: installation-report.template: Warn about mail size limit
Date 2026-09-01 21:50 +0200
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Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

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Hi Pascal,

Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote (Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:41:50 +0200):
> installation-report.template recommends to attach installation logs and 
> other useful files to the bug report. However it appears that the 
> debian-boot mailing list which receives these reports discards mails 
> bigger than ~500 kB. For example some reports contain high-resolution 
> screen shots or the whole contents of /var/log/installer including 
> cdebconf data which take much more than 500 KB, even compressed. As a 
> consequence, such reports may remain unnoticed until someone browses the 
> BTS. So the template should warn about the mail size limit.

I have now added a sentence about this.


Holger

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