[Reportbug-commits] [SCM] Reportbug - reports bugs in the Debian distribution branch, master, updated. 4.8-16-gd08173f

[Sandro Tosi]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 988a3776a68d53a1b11136039a3402f6b41b2fec
Author: Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>
Date:   Sat Nov 21 16:41:30 2009 +0100

    clarified the message displayed when reporting a bug against an orphaned packages, requesting to still report the bug if it exists; thanks to Ryan Niebur for the report; Closes: #544623

diff --git a/bin/reportbug b/bin/reportbug
index 6898ea5..af90a27 100755
--- a/bin/reportbug
+++ b/bin/reportbug
@@ -1530,10 +1530,12 @@ class UI(object):
             ewrite(mstr.encode(charset, 'replace'))
             if 'qa.debian.org' in maintainer:
                 ui.long_message('''\
-This package is currently "orphaned"; if you are a current or prospective
-Debian developer, you might consider adopting it.  Please be aware that your
-report may not be resolved for a while, and that packages that have been
-orphaned for a long period of time are often removed from the archive.
+This package seems to be currently "orphaned"; it also seems you're a
+bit interested in this package, since you're reporting a but against
+it, so you might consider adopting it.  Please be aware that your
+report may not be resolved for a while, because the package lacks an
+active maintainer, but please GO ON and REPORT the bug, if there is
+one.
 
 For more details, please see: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/''')
 
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7b7646c..c0d1e32 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -26,12 +26,15 @@ reportbug (4.8+WIP) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * bin/reportbug
     - '--template' option forces the 'text' UI (it's only useful with that);
       thanks to Johan Kullstam for the report; Closes: #543281
+    - clarified the message displayed when reporting a bug against an orphaned
+      packages, requesting to still report the bug if it exists; thanks to Ryan
+      Niebur for the report; Closes: #544623
   * debian/{desktop, menu)
     - run the GTK+ UI into a terminal: this way we can fall back to 'text' UI if
       GTK+ is not usable; thanks to Filipus Klutiero and Philipp Kern for the
       reports; Closes #554504, #543147
 
- -- Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>  Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:47:35 +0100
+ -- Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>  Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:40:23 +0100
 
 reportbug (4.8) unstable; urgency=low
 

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