[Reportbug-maint] Bug#653183: [reportbug] "Ignored bogus setting for --ui: gtk2" / Menu item fails quietly when python-gtk is not installed

[Filipus Klutiero]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.3.1
Severity: normal

When reportbug is invoked to get the GTK+ interface, it can fail 
incorrectly if python-gtk is missing. reportbug only suggests 
python-gtk, which is probably a good thing, but this forces reportbug to 
expect python-gtk can be missing. When python-gtk is missing, reportbug 
seems to have no idea what --ui gtk2 means:

> $ reportbug --ui gtk2
> Ignored bogus setting for --ui: gtk2
> Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a 
> problem, or type 'other' to report a more general problem. [...]

While this is misleading on the command line, this is worst when using 
reportbug's menu item. That quietly fails.

Although fixing the output on the command line shouldn't be a great 
challenge, I'm not sure what should be done about the menu item. 
Reportbug could launch its text UI as a fallback, but that would need a 
x-terminal-emulator. Should the menu item be moved to a new package just 
for the UI :-?

--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64

Debian Release: wheezy/sid
990 testing security.debian.org
990 testing ftp.ca.debian.org
500 unstable ftp.ca.debian.org
1 experimental ftp.ca.debian.org