Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:21:30PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > The prompts about configuration files could probably be handled by > > having something like a new /usr/share/bug file listing

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread José Luis Tallón
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:37:02PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Luca Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> First solution: change the scripts to use a bash function instead of cat >>> <>> keep going using a FIFO to deal with t

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:21:30PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Come on, we are not trying to imitate Vista. Why do you need to ask >> tons of questions just to report a bug? Their only purpose is to >> confuse the guy reporting a bug and who doesn???t

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:21:30PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Come on, we are not trying to imitate Vista. Why do you need to ask tons > of questions just to report a bug? Their only purpose is to confuse the > guy reporting a bug and who doesn???t know what this /etc/apt/sources.list > file

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Luca Bruno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:03:14 +0100 Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Making everything have to conform to GUI requirements is also > non-friendly. reportbug must still be usable over SSH without requiring > SSH -X. IMHO the GUI requirements

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 19:21 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 18:03 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > > > Reportbug is ok with text and urwid (which also stops curses and > > > switches to text), but the coming GTK+ interface won't support it. > > > > Then the GTK+ front

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 18:03 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > > Reportbug is ok with text and urwid (which also stops curses and > > switches to text), but the coming GTK+ interface won't support it. > > Then the GTK+ frontend is broken and should be fixed so that it can > support the existi

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 19:08 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 17:09 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > > > The second solution is to specify that these scripts should not be > > > interactive. I don’t think there is much point in it, and it would > > > simplify things a lo

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 17:09 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > > The second solution is to specify that these scripts should not be > > interactive. I don’t think there is much point in it, and it would > > simplify things a lot. > > We've been here before. Some people might value the opportu

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 18:21 +0200, Luca Bruno wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:09:26 +0100 > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:35 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 14:39 +0200, Luca Bruno a écrit : > > > > The proposal: > > > > I kn

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Luca Bruno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:09:26 +0100 Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:35 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 14:39 +0200, Luca Bruno a écrit : > > > The proposal: > > > I know it's bad to br

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:37:02PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Luca Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > First solution: change the scripts to use a bash function instead of cat > > < > keep going using a FIFO to deal with the UI > > Second solution: I don't know,

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:35 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 14:39 +0200, Luca Bruno a écrit : > > The proposal: > > I know it's bad to break compatibility but I also think keeping things > > with hacks and far from the GUI prospective can become obsolete and > > non us

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Luca Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First solution: change the scripts to use a bash function instead of cat > < keep going using a FIFO to deal with the UI > Second solution: I don't know, I'm asking to you I'd suggest reviewing all the scripts in use and de

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 14:39 +0200, Luca Bruno a écrit : > The proposal: > I know it's bad to break compatibility but I also think keeping things > with hacks and far from the GUI prospective can become obsolete and > non user-friendly. > > First solution: change the scripts to use a bash fu