[Reportbug-maint] Bug#743759: reportbug: Please provide a command line flag to provide extra info to a bug report

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Package: reportbug
Version: 6.5.0
Severity: wishlist

When triaging bug reports, sometimes one needs to reply to a bug report.
Scripting this would be easier if replying to a bug report was possible
from the command line. Reportbug already provides the -N flag to query a
specific report, but an additional flag (--reply, -r maybe) to skip
reading the bug log and just fire an editor would help.



-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
DEBEMAIL="fsateler at debian.org"
DEBFULLNAME="Felipe Sateler"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/felipe/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "4.0"
mode advanced
ui text
no-cc
header "X-Debbugs-CC: fsateler at debian.org"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.0
ii  python            2.7.5-5
ii  python-reportbug  6.5.0

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                               <none>
pn  debconf-utils                            <none>
pn  debsums                                  <none>
ii  dlocate                                  1.02+nmu3
pn  emacs22-bin-common | emacs23-bin-common  <none>
ii  file                                     1:5.17-1
ii  gnupg                                    1.4.16-1.1
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]           2.11.0-1
ii  python-gtk2                              2.24.0-3+b1
pn  python-gtkspell                          <none>
pn  python-urwid                             <none>
ii  python-vte                               1:0.28.2-5
ii  xdg-utils                                1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.0
ii  python            2.7.5-5
ii  python-debian     0.1.21+nmu2
ii  python-debianbts  1.11
ii  python-support    1.0.15

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information