Package: reportbug Version: 7.5.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I propose to support an option in reportbug.conf equivalent to the -o flag, which outputs the email into a specified file instead of sending it.
This would enable users who use an unsupported MUA to output the formatted report to their drafts folder or other location and open it in their unsupported MUA to continue authorship and submission. While one can use the -o flag to accomplish this, including this option in reportbug.conf can make the process happen by default. My proposal was inspired by this article about using reportbug with GNOME's Evolution program. https://blog.andresgomez.org/2017/02/28/how-to-use-debians-reportbug-with-evolution/#post-876 I have created an implementation of this proposal and submitted it to reportbug's salsa repo. https://salsa.debian.org/reportbug-team/reportbug/merge_requests/12 This implementation simply modifies the config parser to accept "outfile" tokens. The -o flag sets options.outfile anyway, so this implementation is simple and works great. I am actually using my modified version to submit this bug you're reading now, as you can see my .reportbugrc contains an "outfile" token, and I have used Evolution to send this bug report. Should this config option be added to reportbug? If we decide yes, is my implementation sufficient, or does it need work? -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: INTERFACE="urwid" ** /home/jonathan/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "7.5.1" mode standard ui urwid email "[email protected]" no-cc smtphost reportbug.debian.org outfile /home/jonathan/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Drafts/new/reportbug- mail.mbox -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 1.8.0~alpha2 ii python3 3.7.1-2 ii python3-reportbug 7.5.1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.12 reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn claws-mail <none> pn debconf-utils <none> pn debsums <none> pn dlocate <none> pn emacs24-bin-common | emacs25-bin-common <none> ii exim4 4.91-9 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.91-9 ii file 1:5.34-2 ii gnupg 2.2.11-1 ii python3-urwid 2.0.1-2+b1 pn reportbug-gtk <none> ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-1 Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on: ii apt 1.8.0~alpha2 ii file 1:5.34-2 ii python3 3.7.1-2 ii python3-apt 1.7.0 ii python3-debian 0.1.33 ii python3-debianbts 2.7.2 ii python3-requests 2.20.0-2 python3-reportbug suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
