Package: debhelper
Version: 4.9.8
Severity: wishlist

File /usr/share/doc/reportbug/README.developers lists several uses how
reportbug can be configured. One of the things is:

 
     BTS selection
     =============
 
      Packages not distributed by Debian can take advantage of this utility too.
     They just need to add a "send-to" header to the control file
     /usr/share/bug/$package/control.
 
            Send-To: bugs.myproject.com

It seems few files already use customised reportbug features:

    # find /usr/share/bug/ -name control
    /usr/share/bug/xpdf/control
    /usr/share/bug/libmagic1/control
    /usr/share/bug/acroread/control
    /usr/share/bug/tetex-base/control

Where e.g. 

    # cat /usr/share/bug/xpdf/control
    Submit-As: xpdf-reader

SUGGESTION:

Add new dh_reportbug helper that would do following

    destdir=debian/PACKAGE/usr/share/bug/PACKAGE

    if [ -f debian/reportbug.control ]; then
       install -d $destdir
       install -m NNNN debian/reportbug.control $destdir/control
    fi
    
That is: which would handle details of installing customised reportbug
file from

     debian/reportbug.control

If one existed. Alternatively perhaps this could be included in
dh_installdocs as well?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.16.1-3   The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf-utils                 1.4.58     debconf utilities
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.13.11    package building tools for Debian
ii  file                          4.12-1     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  html2text                     1.3.2a-2   An advanced HTML to text converter
ii  perl                          5.8.7-4    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  po-debconf                    0.9.0      manage translated Debconf template

debhelper recommends no packages.

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