[Reportbug-maint] Bug#862566: Pick a package name by clicking on a window

[Enrico Zini]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.1.6
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

suppose I want to report a bug on a GUI software, but the window title
says "Video Player": what package name should I use?

This "simple" one-liner lets you pick a window and outputs its package name to
stdout:

dpkg -S $(readlink /proc/$(xwininfo -wm|sed -nre 's/.+Process id: ([0-9]+).+/\1/p')/exe) | cut -d: -f1

Can you add it to reportbug, at least in its GUI interface? Like, when it asks
for the package name, there could be a button saying something like "select on
screen" that does that.

Today when showing people how to report bugs, the issue came out, and it turns
out that technically it could be easily solvable.


Enrico

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EMAIL="enrico at enricozini.org"
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64
 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                1.4.1
ii  python3-reportbug  7.1.6
pn  python3:any        <none>

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ii  gnupg                                    2.1.18-6
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]           3.1.4-4
ii  python3-gi                               3.22.0-2
ii  python3-gi-cairo                         3.22.0-2
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ii  python3-urwid                            1.3.1-2+b1
ii  xdg-utils                                1.1.1-1

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ii  apt                1.4.1
ii  file               1:5.29-3
ii  python3-debian     0.1.30
ii  python3-debianbts  2.6.1
ii  python3-requests   2.12.4-1
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