[Reportbug-maint] Bug#611341: reportbug: Please allow packages to set usertags via bug-script/bug-control

[Niels Thykier]

Package: reportbug
Version: 4.12.6
Severity: wishlist

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Hi

I was thinking that it would be nice if a package's bug script could
based on user-feedback set usertags.  Admittedly for my use it would
probably be enough (and simpler) if I can provide a static list of
usertags and the description for using the tag (e.g. in the bug
control file).

For my specific usage I am thinking using this for Lintian. The user
would be asked if the bug is a about a false-positive, a new check
etc. Similar to the current "Tags" question reportbug gives.
  But I believe this can also help packages that use usertags for
sorting their BTS page as well as group the bug.

If this is already possible, please consider this a request for
updating README.developers to mention this. :)

Thank you in advance,
~Niels

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** Environment settings:
DEBEMAIL="niels at thykier.net"
DEBFULLNAME="Niels Thykier"
DEBNAME="Niels Thykier"
INTERFACE="text"

** ~/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "4.6"
mode expert
ui text
realname "Niels Thykier"
email "niels at thykier.net"
sign gpg
keyid 7D806442

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                     0.8.10           Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-reportbug        4.12.6           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)
ii  emacs23-bin-common   23.2+1-7            The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii  file                 5.04-5              Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gnupg                1.4.10-4            GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  postfix [mail-transp 2.7.1-1             High-performance mail transport ag
ii  python-gtk2          2.17.0-4            Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
pn  python-gtkspell      <none>              (no description available)
pn  python-urwid         <none>              (no description available)
pn  python-vte           <none>              (no description available)
ii  xdg-utils            1.0.2+cvs20100307-2 desktop integration utilities from

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