[Reportbug-maint] Bug#639573: reportbug: Missing option for automatically collect traces and logs

[Martin Dosch]

Package: reportbug
Version: 5.1.1
Severity: wishlist

There should be an option that makes reportbug automatically collect traces and logs, that could be helpful for developers to reproduce problems or crashes. Like Ubuntus apport.

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/martin/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "5.1.1"
mode standard
ui text
email "martin.dosch at gmx.net"
smtphost "mail.gmx.net"
smtpuser "martin.dosch at gmx.net"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (750, 'unstable'), (250, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                           0.8.15.6   Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  python                        2.6.7-3    interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-reportbug              5.1.1      Python modules for interacting wit

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  debconf-utils                <none>      (no description available)
pn  debsums                      <none>      (no description available)
pn  dlocate                      <none>      (no description available)
pn  emacs22-bin-common | emacs23 <none>      (no description available)
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tra 4.76-2      lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  file                         5.04-5+b1   Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gnupg                        1.4.11-3    GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  python-gtk2                  2.24.0-2    Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
pn  python-gtkspell              <none>      (no description available)
pn  python-urwid                 <none>      (no description available)
ii  python-vte                   1:0.28.1-2  Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii  xdg-utils                    1.1.0~rc1-2 desktop integration utilities from

-- no debconf information