[Reportbug-maint] Bug#614162: reportbug: Allow to report more than one bug

[Éric Araujo]

Package: reportbug
Version: 4.12.6
Severity: wishlist

Ahoy,

I usually report more that one bug at a time.  I may have a short list of
bugs, or I may have found something interesting in the bugs list, added
more info to that report, and now would like to proceed to report the bug I
had in mind before that.  For these situations, it would be nice if the last
screen (the one with the confusing Cancel-Apply buttons and the badly
wrapped text) had a button allowing one to start a new report.

To generalize that request, it could be a good idea to add a button (say on
the bottom left of the GTK UI, so that it’s not mixed with the
Cancel/Continue
buttons that apply to the current report) that can launch a new window (or
tab, but that’s another request I opened) at any time.

The net benefit is that people could launch the program and do more than
one report or reply without having to launch it again.

One obvious drawback of this idea is that one crash would make you lose
more that one report.  Possible workarounds: launch a new process instead
of a new window in the same process; auto-save reports in progress in $TMP;
fix the damn GTK float bug <wink>.

sneaking-bug-reports-in-parens-ly yours



-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="vim"
DEBEMAIL="merwok at netwok.org"
DEBFULLNAME="Éric Araujo"
INTERFACE="gtk2"

** /home/wok/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.48"
mode standard
ui gtk2
realname "Éric Araujo"
email "merwok at netwok.org"
smtphost "smtp.orange.fr"
bts debian
check-available

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
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ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-reportbug        4.12.6           Python modules for interacting wit

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ii  python-vte              1:0.24.3-2       Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii  xdg-utils               1.1.0~rc1-1      desktop integration utilities from

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