[Reportbug-maint] Bug#685271: reportbug: Allow one to automatically subscribe to a bug when reporting it

[Vincent Danjean]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.4.2
Severity: wishlist

  Hi,

  I'm opening this bug to :
- verify that one can already subscribe to a bug when reporting one by manually
  adding a "Control: ..." line in pseudo headers
- asking to include this functionnality automaticcaly.

  Before doing code for the second part (I would be ok to try myself), I think
we need to discuss what we want exactly.
  From my point of view, any "Control:" line can already be manually added per
bug report by editing the pseudo-headers. So, I'm not sure we need something
special (option, ...) per reportbug invocation.
  What seems interesting to me is a way to add such kind of pseudo headers for
all reportbug invocations. Perhaps, we can have a 'pseudo-header' configuration
option (such as the 'header' configuration option).
  But, it can be better if we can have different behavior whether we add
something to an already existing bug report or we submit a new bug report.

What about a configuration option such as:
"pseudo-header" ["always"|"submit"|"following-up"] pseudo-header
Example:
pseudo-header submit Control: subscribe -1 vdanjean.ml at free.fr

Or we want to restrict it to Control commands:
"control" ["always"|"submit"|"following-up"] control-command
Example:
control submit subscribe -1 vdanjean.ml at free.fr

  What do you thing about all of that?

  Regards,
    Vincent

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