[Reportbug-maint] Bug#564090: reportbug: Allow to recurse dependencies when listing them

[Mike Hommey]

Package: reportbug
Version: 4.9
Severity: wishlist

In the package-specific info, there dependencies, recommends and suggests
are listed. This is precious information for maintainers. But sometimes,
the package the bug is reported upon isn't the one that has most useful
dependency information. You may have guessed here, I'm mostly talking about
iceweasel, but I'm pretty sure we could find some other package where this
could be useful.

While I'm not requesting that *all* dependencies be recursively listed,
I'd like, as a maintainer, to tell reportbug, "hey, whenever you report a
bug for iceweasel, give me the information for xulrunner-1.9.1 at the same
time". The package list for which the maintainer of $package requests such
additional information could be put in a file in /usr/share/bug/$package/.

Cheers,

Mike

-- Package-specific info:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                           0.7.25     Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  python                        2.5.4-5    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-reportbug              4.9        Python modules for interacting wit

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  debconf-utils                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  debsums                       2.0.48     tool for verification of installed
pn  dlocate                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  exim4                         4.71-3     metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.71-3     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  file                          5.03-5     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gnupg                         1.4.10-2   GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  python-gtk2                   2.16.0-1   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
pn  python-gtkspell               <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-urwid                  <none>     (no description available)
ii  python-vte                    1:0.22.5-1 Python bindings for the VTE widget
pn  xdg-utils                     <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information