[Reportbug-maint] Bug#725105: reportbug: Add option to resend saved reportbug file

[Wookey]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.4.3ubuntu1
Severity: wishlist

As you know issues with reportbug not sending mail due to local
configuration are now very common. It happens to me all the time
because I am testing inside chroots or on a newly installed instance.

Reportbug makes it very easy to save a report to a file, and indeed
normal usage saves the result in /var/

However it is quite difficult to send the result unless you are the
sorted of aged bearded unix admin that knows the answer is 
sendmail -t < reportbugfile

Every time I have this problem I have to search the net and read reams
of exim docs to remember how to just resend the bugreport on a machine
where email is actually working. I always end up searching the
reportbug manpage for a --resend option and am disappointed to find none

A simple option in reportbug called something like --send-savedreport
(which basically just runs sendmail -t ) would be _really_ helpful.

I did just have a look at the code to see if this was trivial, but my
python-foo was too weak.

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="jed"
EMAIL="wookey at wookware.org"

** /home/wookey/.reportbugrc:
smtphost reportbug.debian.org:587
header "X-Debbugs-CC: wookey at wookware.org"
no-cc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers quantal-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-36-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.9.7.5ubuntu5.4
ii  python            2.7.3-0ubuntu7.1
ii  python-reportbug  6.4.3ubuntu1

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                 <none>
pn  debconf-utils                              <none>
ii  debsums                                    2.0.52
ii  dlocate                                    1.02
ii  emacs23-bin-common                         23.4+1-4ubuntu1
ii  exim4                                      4.80-3ubuntu1.1
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.80-3ubuntu1.1
ii  file                                       5.11-2
ii  gnupg                                      1.4.11-3ubuntu4.2
ii  python-gtk2                                2.24.0-3build1
pn  python-gtkspell                            <none>
pn  python-urwid                               <none>
ii  python-vte                                 1:0.28.2-5ubuntu1
ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.0~rc1-2ubuntu6

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.9.7.5ubuntu5.4
ii  python            2.7.3-0ubuntu7.1
ii  python-debian     0.1.21+nmu2ubuntu1
ii  python-debianbts  1.11
ii  python-support    1.0.15

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/reportbug.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/bin/reportbug (from reportbug package)