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Bug#222472: marked as done (Add Justification field for high severity bugs, with insertion menu)

Your message dated Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:24:53 -0700
with message-id <20090619042453.GY30931@volo.donarmstrong.com>
and subject line No need for a "Justification" field
has caused the Debian Bug report #222472,
regarding Add Justification field for high severity bugs, with insertion menu
to be marked as done.

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222472: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=222472
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Package: debbugs-el
Version: 7.8-3
Severity: normal

debian-bug's debian-bug-prefill-report fails to generate a pseudo
header if the severity is serious (or grave or critical).  The reason
is that reportbug is called without a -J option and with stdin
redirected from /dev/null, so its attempt to prompt for justification
fails.

The effect is that the user is led to submit an invalid bug report
without a pseudo header.

It can be argued that it is a bug in reportbug that it silently
produces an empty template in this case rather than a template for a
normal severity bug.  (Or it should complain and return an error.)
However, that would still leave debian-bug unable to report a bug of
severity serious or higher.  

In any case, for severities serious or higher, debian-bug should
prompt for a justification and pass it to reportbug with -J.

I don't know what happens if the debian-bug-helper-program is bug
rather than reportbug.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux pika 2.4.21 #1 Sun Aug 17 13:05:46 BST 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=

Versions of packages debbugs-el depends on:
ii  emacs21 [emacsen]             21.2-1     The GNU Emacs editor.
ii  reportbug                     1.50       Reports bugs in the Debian distrib
ii  xemacs21-nomule [emacsen]     21.4.6-8   Editor and kitchen sink -- Non-mul

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tag 222472 wontfix
thanks

There's no need for a Justification field; submitters who want it can
file it. If you need something that even approximates this, use the
summary control command.


Don Armstrong

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