launchpad unsuitable for reporting bugs

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

a) launchpad requires the user reporting a bug to be online. Other tools like reportbug collect he required information and send them via email
b) launchpad has no provisions for the package maintainers to specify WHICH DATA they need to reproduce the bug. Usually it goes like this with launchpad:

* somebody reports a bug
* maintainer grunts, asks for more information
* this cycle repeats an arbitrary numer of iterations

Other tools, like reortbug allow the maintainer to specify which data they want to autocollect upon bug submission

[Steve Alexander (stevea)]

You can report a bug to Launchpad via email, using your normal MUA.

See https://help.launchpad.net/UsingMaloneEmail

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I have assigned this bug to Malone which is the bug reporting part of launchpad and closed the bug against Ubuntu.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

As Steve said, you can report a bug while offline using e-mail. The other request, for package-specific bug-reporting information, is bug 43893.