On Monday 26 July 2010 11:54:29 Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:32:49 -0400, Will <ay1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Additionally, an HTTP interface to reportbug would be a good idea. > >Many new users find it difficult or unnecessary to set up an MTA when > >they first install, so allowing to use some kind of HTTP interface > >would be very nice indeed. > > This will decrease the quality of bugs even more since the bug reports > are not going to contain even the minimum of information collected by > reportbug. > > Greetings > Marc
Here's a template reportbug prints out for iceweasel. Subject: none Package: iceweasel Version: 3.6.3-1 Severity: wishlist -- Package-specific info: -- Extensions information Name: Default Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} Package: iceweasel Status: enabled -- Plugins information Name: IcedTea NPR Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea6 1.8 (6b18-1.8-4)) Location: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so Package: icedtea6-plugin Status: enabled Name: Shockwave Flash Location: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so Status: enabled Name: Silverlight Plug-In Location: /usr/lib/moon/plugin/libmoonloader.so Package: moonlight-plugin-core Status: enabled Name: Skype Buttons for Kopete Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/skypebuttons.so Package: kopete Status: enabled Name: VLC Multimedia Plug-in Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so Package: mozilla-plugin-vlc Status: enabled -- Addons package information ii icedtea6-plugi 6b18-1.8-4 web browser plugin based on OpenJDK and Iced ii iceweasel 3.6.3-1 Web browser based on Firefox ii kopete 4:4.4.5-1 instant messaging and chat application ii moonlight-plug 1.0.1-3+b1 Free Software clone of Silverlight 1.0 - plu ii mozilla-plugin 1.1.1-1 multimedia plugin for web browsers based on -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages iceweasel depends on: ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.4-2 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii procps 1:3.2.8-9 /proc file system utilities ii psmisc 22.12-1 utilities that use the proc file s ii xulrunner-1.9.2 1.9.2.3-2 XUL + XPCOM application runner iceweasel recommends no packages. Versions of packages iceweasel suggests: ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.1+dfsg-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k pn mozplugger <none> (no description available) ii ttf-lyx 1.6.7-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font pn ttf-mathematica4.1 <none> (no description available) ii xfonts-mathml 4 Type1 Symbol font for MathML pn xprint <none> (no description available) Versions of packages xulrunner-1.9.2 depends on: ii libasound2 1.0.23-1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.9.6-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libffi5 3.0.9-2 Foreign Function Interface library ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.0-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-7 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.11-1 spell checker and morphological an ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libmozjs3d 1.9.2.3-2 The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.4-2 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-1d 3.12.6-3 Network Security Service libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.23.1-4 SQLite 3 shared library ii libstartup-notification 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information Now with some additional prompts to the user to get subject and body, I don't see how a web app that can get this same information as reportbug can not be developed. -- Regards, Andres Mejia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007261457.02102.mcita...@gmail.com