[Reportbug-maint] Bug#677515: reportbug: response options undocumented

whatmeurgent whatmeurgent at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 14 13:09:17 UTC 2012


Package: reportbug
Version: 6.3.1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

This is a bug that's trivial to fix but greatly impacts usability
for a user, and also usefulness of bug reports for package
maintainers.

Here are pastes of two of reportbug's prompts:

Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|e|?]
Submit this report on ------ (e to edit) [Y|n|a|c|e|i|l|m|p|q|d|t|s|?]?

Great. Most users will know what options Y and N mean, and (e to edit)
is explained. That leaves just 12 unexplained options ...


-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/optimum/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "6.3.1"
mode standard
ui text
realname "whatmeurgent"
email "whatmeurgent at yahoo.com"
no-cc
header "X-Debbugs-CC: whatmeurgent at yahoo.com"
smtphost reportbug.debian.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.9.5.1
ii  python            2.7.2-10
ii  python-reportbug  6.3.1

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
ii  debconf-utils                              <none>
ii  debsums                                    <none>
ii  dlocate                                    1.02
ii  emacs23-bin-common                         23.4+1-3
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.77-1+b1
ii  file                                       5.11-1
ii  gnupg                                      1.4.12-4
ii  python-gtk2                                2.24.0-3
ii  python-gtkspell                            2.25.3-11
ii  python-urwid                               <none>
ii  python-vte                                 1:0.28.2-4
ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.9.5.1
ii  python            2.7.2-10
ii  python-debian     0.1.21
ii  python-debianbts  1.11
ii  python-support    1.0.14

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information





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