Package: debian-el Version: 29.0-1 Severity: normal Hi Peter,
What's funky when wants to follow up, as I'm doing now, is that I have to submit a throwaway bug, load the particular bug from the Bugs menu, and then reply to a pertinent message from the bug. That's pretty awkward. I'm not sure we want to take advantage of debian-bug-menu-preload-flag. It would be strange to have two different behaviors upon entry to debian-bug. So, how to force the download of bugs only on request? First off, I'd suggest swapping the prompt for Severity with the Summary in any case. The prompts seem backward to me. I normally think about the problem before its severity. Once this is done, the Summary prompt might read: "(Very) brief summary of problem (default view existing reports):". Hmmm, maybe not. OK, how about this? Report new bug for a [P]ackage or [F]ile or [R]eply to old bug: (default P) If you choose R, then you're prompted for a list of packages (like P), and then prompted for a bug number (via completion). The *completions* buffer would include the content of the Subject field and if possible, including the headings (for example, Outstanding bugs--Normal bugs; Unclassified). However, which message do you reply to? In practice, I reply to messages that might occur anywhere in the thread, so for me, displaying the folder of messages would be good. Then I could pick and choose the message I wish to reply to. But it is still useful to add the pseudo-header and system information as it might be different from the original poster. However, if the first view is a folder view, we wouldn't have immediate access to it. Maybe we could add a hook so that when replying in this folder, the pseudo-header and system information are added. Or we could add a Bugs > Insert System Info menu item. Ideas? By the way, you'll notice that in this case, the Severity prompt is bypassed since the bug already has a severity. Hence my request to swap the order... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (80, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debian-el depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii emacs21 [emacsen] 21.4a+1-5.3 The GNU Emacs editor ii emacs22-gtk [emacse 22.1+1-2.3 The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK use ii reportbug 3.39 reports bugs in the Debian distrib ii xemacs21-gnome-nomu 21.4.20-3 highly customizable text editor -- Versions of packages debian-el recommends: ii dlocate 0.94 fast alternative to dpkg -L and dp ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-15 GNU troff text-formatting system ( ii wget 1.10.2-3 retrieves files from the web -- no debconf information -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
