[Reportbug-maint] Bug#653738: Configuration routine not run if a package specified on first run

[Iain Lane]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.3.1
Severity: normal

Hiya,

If the user specifies a package when first running reportbug, novice
mode is assumed and no further configuration questions are asked. This
might be troublesome in particular if the user does not have a working
local mail setup. Perhaps reportbug could offer to run the confuguration
routine in this case? Or just warn that this assumption is being made
and that they should abort and run with --configure if they want to
change it.

Cheers,


-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="vim"
DEBEMAIL="iain at orangesquash.org.uk"
EMAIL="iain at orangesquash.org.uk"
DEBFULLNAME="Iain Lane"
NAME="Iain Lane"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/laney/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.48ubuntu1"
mode expert
ui text
no-cc
header "X-Debbugs-CC: laney at debian.org"
bts debian
email laney at debian.org
mutt

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.8.15.9
ii  python            2.7.2-9
ii  python-reportbug  6.3.1

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
ii  debconf-utils                 1.5.41
ii  debsums                       <none>
ii  dlocate                       1.02
ii  emacs23-bin-common            23.3+1-4
ii  file                          5.09-2
ii  gnupg                         1.4.11-3
ii  python-gtk2                   2.24.0-2
ii  python-gtkspell               <none>
ii  python-urwid                  <none>
ii  python-vte                    1:0.28.2-4
ii  ssmtp [mail-transport-agent]  2.64-5
ii  xdg-utils                     1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-4

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.8.15.9
ii  python            2.7.2-9
ii  python-debian     0.1.21
ii  python-debianbts  1.10
ii  python-support    1.0.14

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
PhD student                                       [ ial at cs.nott.ac.uk ]
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