Your message dated Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:51:35 +0100
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and subject line Re: Before presenting old bugs, please ask some filtering
questions
has caused the Debian Bug report #358472,
regarding reportbug: Reportbug lists too many candidate bugs, please make them
searchable
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Package: reportbug
Version: 3.18
Severity: wishlist
When using reportbug to report a problem, I often enough get 50
pages of "is your bug mentioned above?"
I understand the idea - you want to avoid duplicate reports.
But wading through all those one-liners is often too much.
In practice, I read the few first screens carefully and then skips
all the rest. I guess this is true for many other reporters as well.
I have a couple of suggestions:
1. Try harder to *not* list uninteresting bugs. For example,
bugs solved in a version earlier than the installed version.
It cannot possibly be one of those, can it?
2. Please make the bugs searchable from this prompt. I want
to avoid a duplicate report, but I am not going to read
carefully an unlimited list of possible bugs.
Often I know something more, such as a particular command
or filename that surely *must* be mentioned in any duplicate.
So ability to set a searcfilter for showing only bugs that contain
a supplied string would be very helpful indeed. And it would even
find bugs where the one-line description is bad, but the string
exists inside the report somewhere.
The candidate bugs for the dpkg package has many many pages dominated by
asserts in the dpkg program - none of which can possibly cover this
wishlist bug. Actually, setting an exlusion string might be
an idea too, although dangerous.
-- Package-specific info:
** /home/helgehaf/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "2.58"
mode standard
ui text
realname "Helge Hafting"
email "[email protected]"
smtphost "mail.aitel.hist.no"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'stable'), (700,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii python2.3 2.3.5-9.1 An interactive high-level object-o
Versions of packages reportbug recommends:
ii python2.3-iconvcodec 1.1.2-2 Python universal Unicode codec, us
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Hello,
reportbug already has a filtering functions on the reported bugs (even
though it's available after downloading the list of already present
bug reports); here's a transcript showing its usage and capabilities:
$ reportbug --debug --no-check-available gkrellm
*** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. ***
Detected character set: UTF-8
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.
Using 'Sandro Tosi <[email protected]>' as your from address.
Getting status for gkrellm...
Verifying package integrity...
Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
Querying Debian BTS for reports on gkrellm (source)...
10 bug reports found:
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (5 bugs)
1) #509519 gkrellm: Does not show text (rx/tx bytes, and label)
for one of three interfaces
2) #522783 Monkey Lovers Theme: gkrellm loses its panel behavior
3) #523394 gkrellm: cannot use /dev/by-id/
4) #561654 removing gkrellmd results in deluser churning away for hours
5) #563220 gkrellm failing to connect to previously used host
causes xfce4-panel to abort with an error
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (2 bugs)
6) #497635 gkrellm: ownership of /var/lock/gkrellm
7) #523115 gkrellm: Flickers when takes or looses focus
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Patch Available (1 bug)
8) #406858 disk I/O on device mapper is counted twice
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (1 bug)
9) #444243 gkrellm: 'Builtins>Sensors>Options>MBmon_Daemon_Port'
interface confusing.
Resolved bugs -- Minor bugs (1 bug)
10) #554553 FTBFS with binutils-gold
(1-10/10) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|?]? f
Enter the search pattern (a Perl-compatible regular expression)
or press ENTER to exit: lock
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (2 bugs): 1 report
1) #497635 gkrellm: ownership of /var/lock/gkrellm
(1-1/1) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|u|t|?]? u
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (5 bugs)
1) #509519 gkrellm: Does not show text (rx/tx bytes, and label)
for one of three interfaces
2) #522783 Monkey Lovers Theme: gkrellm loses its panel behavior
3) #523394 gkrellm: cannot use /dev/by-id/
4) #561654 removing gkrellmd results in deluser churning away for hours
5) #563220 gkrellm failing to connect to previously used host
causes xfce4-panel to abort with an error
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (2 bugs)
6) #497635 gkrellm: ownership of /var/lock/gkrellm
7) #523115 gkrellm: Flickers when takes or looses focus
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Patch Available (1 bug)
8) #406858 disk I/O on device mapper is counted twice
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (1 bug)
9) #444243 gkrellm: 'Builtins>Sensors>Options>MBmon_Daemon_Port'
interface confusing.
Resolved bugs -- Minor bugs (1 bug)
10) #554553 FTBFS with binutils-gold
(1-10/10) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|?]? f
Enter the search pattern (a Perl-compatible regular expression)
or press ENTER to exit: dev
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (5 bugs): 1 report
1) #523394 gkrellm: cannot use /dev/by-id/
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Patch Available (1 bug): 1 report
2) #406858 disk I/O on device mapper is counted twice
(1-2/2) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|u|t|?]? f
Enter the search pattern (a Perl-compatible regular expression)
or press ENTER to exit: by-id
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (5 bugs): 1 report
1) #523394 gkrellm: cannot use /dev/by-id/
(1-1/1) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|u|t|?]? u
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (5 bugs): 1 report
1) #523394 gkrellm: cannot use /dev/by-id/
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Patch Available (1 bug): 1 report
2) #406858 disk I/O on device mapper is counted twice
(1-2/2) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|u|t|?]? u
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (5 bugs)
1) #509519 gkrellm: Does not show text (rx/tx bytes, and label)
for one of three interfaces
2) #522783 Monkey Lovers Theme: gkrellm loses its panel behavior
3) #523394 gkrellm: cannot use /dev/by-id/
4) #561654 removing gkrellmd results in deluser churning away for hours
5) #563220 gkrellm failing to connect to previously used host
causes xfce4-panel to abort with an error
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (2 bugs)
6) #497635 gkrellm: ownership of /var/lock/gkrellm
7) #523115 gkrellm: Flickers when takes or looses focus
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Patch Available (1 bug)
8) #406858 disk I/O on device mapper is counted twice
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (1 bug)
9) #444243 gkrellm: 'Builtins>Sensors>Options>MBmon_Daemon_Port'
interface confusing.
Resolved bugs -- Minor bugs (1 bug)
10) #554553 FTBFS with binutils-gold
(1-10/10) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|?]?
Given the functionality is already present, I'm closing these reports.
Regards,
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
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