Package: reportbug Version: 4.9 Severity: wishlist In the package-specific info, there dependencies, recommends and suggests are listed. This is precious information for maintainers. But sometimes, the package the bug is reported upon isn't the one that has most useful dependency information. You may have guessed here, I'm mostly talking about iceweasel, but I'm pretty sure we could find some other package where this could be useful.
While I'm not requesting that *all* dependencies be recursively listed, I'd like, as a maintainer, to tell reportbug, "hey, whenever you report a bug for iceweasel, give me the information for xulrunner-1.9.1 at the same time". The package list for which the maintainer of $package requests such additional information could be put in a file in /usr/share/bug/$package/. Cheers, Mike -- Package-specific info: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.7.25 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii python 2.5.4-5 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-reportbug 4.9 Python modules for interacting wit reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn debconf-utils <none> (no description available) ii debsums 2.0.48 tool for verification of installed pn dlocate <none> (no description available) ii exim4 4.71-3 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.71-3 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon ii file 5.03-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii gnupg 1.4.10-2 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii python-gtk2 2.16.0-1 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge pn python-gtkspell <none> (no description available) pn python-urwid <none> (no description available) ii python-vte 1:0.22.5-1 Python bindings for the VTE widget pn xdg-utils <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
