Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.1.47 Severity: normal Hi,
currently, apt-listbugs output might look like this: Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done grave bugs of context (→ 2025.09.21.20251026+dfsg-1) <Outstanding> b1 - #1121307 - lpdf-lmt.lmt:1681: attempt to perform bitwise operation on a nil value (local 'options') serious bugs of ca-certificates-java (→ 20260311) <Outstanding> b2 - #1142266 - ca-certificates-java: doesn't refresh /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts on upgrade from bookworm serious bugs of inkscape (→ 1.4.3-1+b1) <Outstanding> b3 - #1141190 - Non-free license on Hershey fonts serious bugs of texlive-formats-extra (→ 2026.20260711-1) <Outstanding> b4 - #1139505 - gitmagic: FTBFS: LaTeX error Merged with: 1139514 1139525 Summary: ca-certificates-java(1 bug), context(1 bug), inkscape(1 bug), texlive-formats-extra(1 bug) Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] I'm providing user support for the MNT Reform platform. Since we usually require packages more recent than what is in Debian stable for the ARM64 systems to work correctly, our users are provided with a Debian unstable installation. In the hopes that it might reduce the amount of bugs our users run into when using Debian unstable, we have apt-listbugs installed by default. The problem which I frequently encounter is, that our users see the list above and then have no way of knowing what to do with this information because they don't know how to connect the bug number with the corresponding webpage of the Debian BTS. I have two ideas: Instead of listing the bug number, expand it to a URL the user can click on. The bug subjects are usually super long anyways (see above) so maybe it would not be too bad to instead output: b1 - https://bugs.debian.org/1121307 - lpdf-lmt.lmt:1681: attempt to perform bitwise operation on a nil value (local 'options') serious bugs of ca-certificates-java (→ 20260311) <Outstanding> b2 - https://bugs.debian.org/1142266 - ca-certificates-java: doesn't refresh /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts on upgrade from bookworm serious bugs of inkscape (→ 1.4.3-1+b1) <Outstanding> b3 - https://bugs.debian.org/1141190 - Non-free license on Hershey fonts serious bugs of texlive-formats-extra (→ 2026.20260711-1) <Outstanding> b4 - https://bugs.debian.org/1139505 - gitmagic: FTBFS: LaTeX error Or, alternatively, add an additional line of text just after the summary saying something along the lines of: To obtain more details about the bugs listed above, go to https://bugs.debian.org/XXXXXXX where you replace XXXXXXX with the numerical value shown at the beginning of each line above (but without the hash). What do you think? Thanks! cheers, josch
