Hello David, On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:12 AM, David M Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > if reportbug can't find a package by the name specified, it should check for > packages that contain the executable / file specified.. > > Example: The user wants to file a bug against a program they know is called > "kscreenlocker". However the user doesn't have any packages installed that > correspond to that name. If reportbug queries packages.debian.net then it > could find a list of packages that contain the "kscreenlocker" executable and > filter it by packages that the user has installed. Then present the user with > a list of suggested packages.
Isn't the '-f' cli option what you're looking for? $ reportbug -O mkdir ... Getting status for mkdir... No matching source or binary packages. $ reportbug -O -f mkdir Finding package for 'mkdir'... Resolved as '/bin/mkdir'. Multiple packages match: 1 coreutils /bin/mkdir 2 klibc-utils /usr/lib/klibc/bin/mkdir Select one of these packages: Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint
