Please merge reportbug 4.4 (universe) from debian unstable (utils)

[Kow]

Binary package hint: reportbug

Quite a few bug fixes since 4.2. Hopefully debian will get some more of the debian bts bugs fixed before karmic DIF. This version should at least make the new gtk2 ui mostly usable.

NOTE: Most of the new bugs since 3.48 are due to the new gtk2 ui. A reportbug config setting allows easy switching between the various interfaces (the text-mode interface has been largely untouched since 3.48).

[Kow (kow)]

Here is the candidate debdiff. The "--install-layout=deb" change was dropped because debian applied it. All other changes are carried over from 4.2ubuntu1.

[Sandro Tosi (morph-debian)]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 23:09, Kow <email address hidden> wrote:
> Quite a few bug fixes since 4.2. Hopefully debian will get some more of
> the debian bts bugs fixed before karmic DIF. This version should at
> least make the new gtk2 ui mostly usable.
>
> NOTE: Most of the new bugs since 3.48 are due to the new gtk2 ui. A
> reportbug config setting allows easy switching between the various
> interfaces (the text-mode interface has been largely untouched since
> 3.48).

Are you going to provide some patches or just complain cluelessy?

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[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Sandro: I think that Kow was just making a statement about the current situation of reportbug bugs and not directly criticising the reportbug maintainers.

There's no need for that kind of language.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package reportbug - 4.4ubuntu1

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reportbug (4.4ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable (LP: #382562), remaining changes:
    - Make reportbug stop working for bts=ubuntu and refer to
      "ubuntu-bug" instead
    - reportbug: exit with an error, if bts=ubuntu (or unconfigured)
    - Match reportbug version with package version.
    - debian/control: add prominent note to package description
    - debian/rules: Remove dh_desktop, no longer does anything.

reportbug (4.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * reportbug/__init__.py
    - bump reportbug version
  * bin/reportbug, reportbug/utils.py
    - enforce mua check; thanks to Carl Chenet for the patch; Closes: #530499

reportbug (4.3) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Luca Bruno ]
  * reportbug/ui/gtk2_ui.py:
    - fix crash when showing menu options; Closes: #526628
    - make the textbox containing error information wider
    - implement show_report() : it allows querybts to work with gtk2 UI; thanks
      to James Vega for the report; Closes: #525762

  [ Sandro Tosi ]
  * reportbug/__init__.py
    - bump reportbug version
  * reportbug/submit.py
    - skip to show the ack message if fails to send the email to all the
      recipients; thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the report and to Carl Chenet
      for the patch; Closes: #524640
    - limit tries to max 3 (1 try + 2 retries) to deliver the message; thanks to
      alecs1 for the report and to Carl Chenet for the patch; Closes: #489447
  * reportbug/utils.py, bin/reportbug
    - added 'mua_exists' function to check existence of the selected MUA; thanks
      to Bernhard R. Link for the report and to Carl Chenet for the patch;
      Closes: #363920
  * debian/control
    - tight dependency of reportbug package to python-reportbug to be the same
      of source version
  * bin/reportbug
    - display the correct message when saving the report into a file (using the
      '-o' option); thanks to Timo Juhani Lindfors for the report and to Carl
      Chenet for the patch; Closes: #496083
    - added a menu option to detach attachment files; thanks to Michael Beattie
      for the report and to Carl Chenet for the patch; Closes: #206318
    - allow '--debug' to be used with '--kudos'; thanks to Branden Robinson for
      the report and to Carl Chenet for the patch; Closes: #152425
  * reportbug/bugreport.py
    - decode UTF-8 body text to avoid encoding issues; thanks to nathael for the
      report and to Carl Chenet for the patch; Closes: #496210
  * doc/README.Users
    - added explanation about what modules are needed to let GTK+ UI works;
      thanks to Leonardo Meira for the report; Closes: #527994
  * po4a/po/fr.po
    - proof-read version of French manpage; thanks to Sylvain Cherrier for the
      report and patch; Closes: #528956
  * bin/reportbug, reportbug/{bugreport.py, utils.py}
    - include debsums output into bug report; thanks to Michael Biebl for the
      report and to Carl Chenet for the patch; Closes: #458572
    - added debsums output also for --template (non interactive) executions
  * debian/{control, rules}
    - added '--install-layout=deb', to prepare for Python 2.6 in...

[Sandro Tosi (morph-debian)]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 07:37, Daniel Holbach<email address hidden> wrote:
> Sandro: I think that Kow was just making a statement about the current
> situation of reportbug bugs and not directly criticising the reportbug
> maintainers.

fine, so help debian fix those bugs. publicly writing what Kow wrote
for an open source project is no-no: do something to help, or just
don't say anything.

And the story about "ubuntu keeps messing up with reportbug" goes on.

> There's no need for that kind of language.

I didn't use any particular language.

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[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Can you elaborate on "keeps messing up with reportbug"? Is there a particular problem you're referring to?

I was just on "clueless" - I really doubt that it was Kow's intent to criticise the good work that the reportbug maintainers put into it.

[Kow (kow)]

I was not in any way criticizing upstream. As part of merging we're supposed to check in on both debian bts bugs and also lp bugs. I didn't want to list every single bug that debian fixed between 4.2 and 4.4 (heck, they're already in the changelog) but I wanted to point out that "hey... I didn't just blindly merge this package." Sorry for the confusion.