[Reportbug-maint] Bug#854405: reportbug: Should handle missing optional runtime depencies more gracefully

[Jakob Haufe]

reopen 854405
retitle 854405 reportbug: Should handle missing optional runtime depencies more gracefully
severity 84405 normal
kthxbye

The issue is a little more complex. Reportbug behaves differently
depending on which packages are missing.

If python3-gi is missing, it falls back to text mode as documented.
If, however, python3-gi is install, but gir1.2-vte-2.91 is missing, it
fails to fall back and emits the reported traceback.

It would be nice if reportbug handled this the same way as if
python3-gi was missing.

Cheers,
sur5r