On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:50:17AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 11:41:21PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > >> how do you instruct reportbug to report the bug against the stable version? > > > > I didn't; I just invoked reportbug in the normal way 'reportbug' > > and was not given a chance to provide a version. > > no surprise then that it repotbug didnt act as you wanted. > > > The correct fix sounds like it would be to pick the destination > > after the bugreport is edited rather than before. If that's too hard, > > allowing the user to override the destination if (maybe just if it's > > a non-default one) would help - or of course to allow the user to > > override the version number earlier. > > So I think it would be obvious as well to check the manpage/--help to > look for options that might do what you want? > > -V PKGVERSION, --package-version=PKGVERSION > specify the version number for the package
The problem is that from a user experience point of view, the problem isn't discovered until after all the hard work of writing the bug report is done. Anyway, I don't think we're really getting anywhere, so this is the last from me on this bug. Dominic.
