On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Raphael Geissert <geiss...@debian.org> wrote: > On Saturday 25 August 2012 04:48:59 Sandro Tosi wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Raphael Geissert <geiss...@debian.org> > wrote: >> > It is currently impossible to use reportbug to non-interactively file >> > bug reports. There are multiple issues for one of my use cases, but I >> > will file them in other reports. >> >> can you be so kind to specify those usecases? > > Automatically filing bug reports when new issues are added to the security > tracker. > At the moment there's a script that generates a template but then it has to > be manually edited and then piped to some MUA. I'd like to get rid of some > of its parts and just hand the template over to reportbug (and in the > specific case of auto-filing, avoiding all interactivity).
Ok, I meant: what is the exact (or the variation of it) command you're running that doesn't give the non-interactive experience you're describing? This way I'll have the precise use-case to verify if the fix works or not. >> > So, this one is a request to add an option that really makes reportbug >> > non- interactive and files the bug report. >> >> mh, is this a meta-bug to fix all the other reports you filed? > > Not really, it was more a request to add an option (say --non-interactive), > as --print and --template don't do quite what I'm requesting: being able to > pass all the bug report information to reportbug so that it just puts it > together and files it on the BTS. Great, better then - I feared it was more "hey I have those other bugs I'd like to have fixed so that this feature would work" > The other bug reports are related. For instance, this bug could probably be > fixed by adding another pseudo-ui that doesn't interact with the user and, > instead, uses the default values for each prompt. If there's no default > value, then it is an error and it aborts the whole thing. I think much of the menus and questions can be skipped or answered on the cli, but I need the command causing problem to pin-points where the problems are. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
