On Saturday 25 August 2012 04:48:59 Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Raphael Geissert <geiss...@debian.org> 
wrote:
> > It is currently impossible to use reportbug to non-interactively file
> > bug reports. There are multiple issues for one of my use cases, but I
> > will file them in other reports.
> 
> can you be so kind to specify those usecases?

Automatically filing bug reports when new issues are added to the security 
tracker.
At the moment there's a script that generates a template but then it has to 
be manually edited and then piped to some MUA. I'd like to get rid of some 
of its parts and just hand the template over to reportbug (and in the 
specific case of auto-filing, avoiding all interactivity).

> > So, this one is a request to add an option that really makes reportbug
> > non- interactive and files the bug report.
> 
> mh, is this a meta-bug to fix all the other reports you filed?

Not really, it was more a request to add an option (say --non-interactive), 
as --print and --template don't do quite what I'm requesting: being able to 
pass all the bug report information to reportbug so that it just puts it 
together and files it on the BTS.

The other bug reports are related. For instance, this bug could probably be 
fixed by adding another pseudo-ui that doesn't interact with the user and, 
instead, uses the default values for each prompt. If there's no default 
value, then it is an error and it aborts the whole thing.

Just an idea.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net

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