Package: reportbug Version: 3.18 Severity: wishlist
When using reportbug to report a problem, I often enough get 50 pages of "is your bug mentioned above?" I understand the idea - you want to avoid duplicate reports. But wading through all those one-liners is often too much. In practice, I read the few first screens carefully and then skips all the rest. I guess this is true for many other reporters as well. I have a couple of suggestions: 1. Try harder to *not* list uninteresting bugs. For example, bugs solved in a version earlier than the installed version. It cannot possibly be one of those, can it? 2. Please make the bugs searchable from this prompt. I want to avoid a duplicate report, but I am not going to read carefully an unlimited list of possible bugs. Often I know something more, such as a particular command or filename that surely *must* be mentioned in any duplicate. So ability to set a searcfilter for showing only bugs that contain a supplied string would be very helpful indeed. And it would even find bugs where the one-line description is bad, but the string exists inside the report somewhere. The candidate bugs for the dpkg package has many many pages dominated by asserts in the dpkg program - none of which can possibly cover this wishlist bug. Actually, setting an exlusion string might be an idea too, although dangerous. -- Package-specific info: ** /home/helgehaf/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "2.58" mode standard ui text realname "Helge Hafting" email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" smtphost "mail.aitel.hist.no" -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'stable'), (700, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16 Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii python2.3 2.3.5-9.1 An interactive high-level object-o Versions of packages reportbug recommends: ii python2.3-iconvcodec 1.1.2-2 Python universal Unicode codec, us -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
