#1146435 reportbug: please warn about mailinglist size limit for installation-reports

#1146435#5
Date:
2026-09-01 19:53:10 UTC
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Hi,

as a follow-up on
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107655
I'm requesting to also change the installation-reports template in reportbug,
to warn users, that mails with files bigger than ~500 kB will not make it to
the debian-boot mailinglist.

Well, there is the hint to "compress big files with gzip".
But how big is "big"?
Many users will not consider 500 kB a big file these days...

In installation-report I have modified the template like this:
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/installation-report/-/commit/d7e18e67bb9edbe3cf16287907c7a083b7d74b87



Many Thanks

So long
Holger