=== modified file 'launchpadbugs/html_bug.py'
--- launchpadbugs/html_bug.py	2007-09-07 07:43:06 +0000
+++ launchpadbugs/html_bug.py	2007-09-09 09:55:17 +0000
@@ -709,6 +709,13 @@
             and leave the bugreport in launchpad unchanged (default=True)
         """
         if self.changed:
+            if "description" not in [i.component for i in self.changed]:
+                url = "%s/+edit" %self.__url
+                result = self.__connection.get(url)
+                xmldoc = libxml2.htmlParseDoc(result.text, "UTF-8")
+                x = xmldoc.xpathEval('//textarea[@name="field.description"]')
+                assert x, "Wrong XPath-Expr in BugReport.commit() 'description' (%s)" %(DEBUG_URL or "unknown")
+                self.__description = x[0].content
             assert self.title and self.description, ".title and .description needed in BugReport.commit() (%s)" %(DEBUG_URL or "unknown")
             args = { 'field.actions.change': '1', 
                  'field.title': self.title,