[Reportbug-maint] Bug#801545: reportbug picks debian-backports submission address inappropriately

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:50:17AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 11:41:21PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> >> how do you instruct reportbug to report the bug against the stable version?
> >
> > I didn't; I just invoked reportbug in the normal way 'reportbug'
> > and was not given a chance to provide a version.
> 
> no surprise then that it repotbug didnt act as you wanted.
> 
> > The correct fix sounds like it would be to pick the destination
> > after the bugreport is edited rather than before. If that's too hard,
> > allowing the user to override the destination if (maybe just if it's
> > a non-default one) would help - or of course to allow the user to
> > override the version number earlier.
> 
> So I think it would be obvious as well to check the manpage/--help to
> look for options that might do what you want?
> 
>   -V PKGVERSION, --package-version=PKGVERSION
>                         specify the version number for the package

The problem is that from a user experience point of view, the
problem isn't discovered until after all the hard work of writing
the bug report is done.

Anyway, I don't think we're really getting anywhere, so this is the
last from me on this bug.

Dominic.