Package: reportbug Version: 4.5 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi,
Thanks for the bug report. Here is a patch to loop until the user provides a subject instead of just leaving. Bye, Carl Chenet -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: DEBEMAIL="cha...@ohmytux.com" DEBFULLNAME="Carl Chenet" INTERFACE="text" ** /home/chaica/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "4.5" mode novice ui text smtphost "smtp.free.fr" -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.7.21 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii python 2.5.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-reportbug 4.5 Python modules for interacting wit reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn debconf-utils <none> (no description available) ii debsums 2.0.44 verification of installed package pn dlocate <none> (no description available) ii exim4 4.69-9 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-9 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon ii file 5.00-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gnupg 1.4.9-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep pn python-gnome2-extras <none> (no description available) pn python-gtk2 <none> (no description available) pn python-urwid <none> (no description available) pn python-vte <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
>From 054bf939de943b03efd686e3f7b6cd46d7ad9608 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: chaica <cha...@ohmytux.com> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:26:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] do not stop on subject --- bin/reportbug | 22 +++++++++++++--------- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/bin/reportbug b/bin/reportbug index ff48d77..5d13f61 100755 --- a/bin/reportbug +++ b/bin/reportbug @@ -1600,15 +1600,19 @@ For more details, please see: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/''') pkgversion = None elif not subject and not notatty: prompted = True - subject = ui.get_string( - 'Please briefly describe your problem (max. 100 characters allowed; you can elaborate in ' - 'a moment; an empty response will stop reportbug). This will ' - 'be the bug email subject, so write a concise summary of what ' - 'is wrong with the package, for example, "fails to send email" ' - 'or "does not start with -q option specified."', force_prompt=True) - - if not subject: - efail("No subject specified; stopping.\n") + subject_ok = False + while not subject_ok: + subject = ui.get_string( + 'Please briefly describe your problem (max. 100 characters allowed; you can elaborate in ' + 'a moment; an empty response will stop reportbug). This will ' + 'be the bug email subject, so write a concise summary of what ' + 'is wrong with the package, for example, "fails to send email" ' + 'or "does not start with -q option specified."', force_prompt=True) + + if not subject: + ewrite("Providing a subject is mandatory.\n") + else: + subject_ok = True if len(subject) > 100 and prompted and mode < MODE_EXPERT: subject = ui.get_string( -- 1.6.2.3
