[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#535592: rt3.8-clients: rt(1) ignores server in /etc/request-tracker3.8/rt.conf

[Jon Dowland]

Package: rt3.8-clients
Version: 3.8.4-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

I configured /etc/request-tracker3.8/rt.conf with a server
line as follows

server http://ra.ncl.ac.uk/rt

and having set RTDEBUG=3, RTUSER and RTPASS environment
variables, I get the following:

# rt comment -m "zomglol" 1
POST /REST/1.0/ticket/1/comment
(snip)
400 URL must be absolute
rt: Server error: URL must be absolute (400)

If I also set RTSERVER=http://ra.ncl.ac.uk/rt then all is
well. So it would appear this server line in
/etc/request-tracker3.8/rt.conf is being ignored.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rt3.8-clients depends on:
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-11    lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  libhtml-format-perl           2.04-2     format HTML syntax trees into text
ii  libhtml-tree-perl             3.23-1     represent and create HTML syntax t
ii  libterm-readkey-perl          2.30-4     A perl module for simple terminal 
ii  libterm-readline-gnu-perl     1.19-1     Perl extension for the GNU Readlin
ii  libwww-perl                   5.826-1    WWW client/server library for Perl
ii  perl                          5.10.0-22  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages rt3.8-clients recommends:
ii  libio-socket-ssl-perl         1.24-1     Perl module implementing object or

rt3.8-clients suggests no packages.

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