Package: reportbug Version: 6.4.4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I installed debian, and tried to run reportbug. When you initially boot it, it hasn't got a GUI, and instructs you to install one - then again with a spell- checker. Both of these things are quite off-putting, and discourage people from reporting minor bugs. I know it isn't a one off as I have had it installing debian several times. Reportbug currently is not easy or stable enough to encourage novice users from reporting the small issues that can make debian difficult for un-technical users. This is a hurdle itself to overcome, but it also probably contributes to lots of the issues with the GUI not being delt with, as more technical users are happy to use the CLI instead, so problems are overlooked. A better approach would be to automatically install the two dependencies (python-gtkspell is one of them i think, can't remember, although it says), and offer the CLI/ inform people of how to use it, when launching that way. This would be an important starting point to fixing the many bugs and usability issues in reportbug's interface, rather than ignoring them.
-- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: INTERFACE="gtk2" ** /home/zack/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "6.4.4" mode standard ui gtk2 realname "Z" email "b...@theloosespoke.org.uk" no-cc header "X-Debbugs-CC: b...@theloosespoke.org.uk" smtphost reportbug.debian.org -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.9.14.2 ii python 2.7.5-5 ii python-reportbug 6.4.4 reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn claws-mail <none> pn debconf-utils <none> pn debsums <none> pn dlocate <none> pn emacs22-bin-common | emacs23-bin-common <none> ii exim4 4.82-3 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.82-3 ii file 1:5.14-2 ii gnupg 1.4.16-1 ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-3+b1 ii python-gtkspell 2.25.3-12 pn python-urwid <none> ii python-vte 1:0.28.2-5 ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7 Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.9.14.2 ii python 2.7.5-5 ii python-debian 0.1.21+nmu2 ii python-debianbts 1.11 ii python-support 1.0.15 python-reportbug suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list Reportbug-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint