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

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Mike,
thanks for your bug report.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 17:41, Mike Hommey <mh+reportbug at glandium.org> wrote:
> 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,

even because, on a general view, it would increase the bug length to a
point the maintainer has difficulty to find the information he needss.

> 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/.

"reportbug --template <pkg>" prints the bug template that would be
used if reporting the bug for real: would it be possible for you to
use it in a bug script, with the support of sed/awk/grep/whatever to
extract the information you need? they will be included into the bug
report, only for the package you decide, with teh advantage of not
increasing reportbug complexity :)

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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