Dear maintainers,

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.

Or would it be better to raise or remove the mailing list size limit ?

Hi Pascal,

Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote (Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:41:50 +0200):

I have now added a sentence about this.


Holger

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
installation-report, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1107655@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> (supplier of updated installation-report package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:34:45 +0200
Source: installation-report
Architecture: source
Version: 2.99
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
Closes: 1107655
Changes:
 installation-report (2.99) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
 .
   [ Updated translations ]
   * Bosnian (bs.po) by pacavarn
   * Northern Sami (se.po) by Børre Gaup
 .
   * Warn about the mailinglist size limit in bugreport template.
     Closes: #1107655.
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