please mention the source package in bug mails

[Matthias Klose]

please mention the source package in bug mails, so you have a context without visiting the bug page.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

The package name is listed when the bug is first filed, and it is also listed in the X-Launchpad-Bug header. Perhaps you could set your mail client to display that header by default?

If this works for you, could you please close this bug as Rejected? Thanks.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Christian Reis schrieb:
> The package name is listed when the bug is first filed, and it is also listed in the X-Launchpad-Bug header. Perhaps you could set your mail client to display that header by default?
>
> If this works for you, could you please close this bug as Rejected? Thanks.

I see that evolution has such a configuration option, but thunderbird
(in main as well) has only an option to show all headers. yes, maybe a
bug, but the emacs vm mode doesn't have such an option either.

[Rocco Stanzione (trappist)]

I'd like to +1 this request. I often make it a point to put the package name in the summary field because I know it may not otherwise be readily apparent to potential subscribers, and I often recieve emails on bugs with no idea what package is involved.

In my opinion this could be satisfied by changing the link from
https://launchpad.net/bugs/bugnumber
to, say
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/srcpkg/+bug/bugnumber

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

Current bug mails contain the title of a bug in the Subject: header and also in the signature.
Could the signature be changed to specify the source package instead or prefix the bug title in the signature with the source package?

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Although this report mentions only the source package, I guess it would also cover projects and distribution only bugs.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

This means we would need to include N rows in the signature, one for each task the bug has (or N URLs, but I would not consider doing that). This is not an issue for single-task bugs. Are we sure we want to do this?

[William Grant (wgrant)]

You can get this today using the "Include bug descriptions" option on <https://launchpad.net/~/+edit>, but it's not possible to get target details without the bug description as well.