Bug#542249: debbugs-local: unable to use due to bug or absent relevent documentation

[Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>]

Package: debbugs-local
Version: 2.4.2~exp0
Severity: normal


Hi,

I am revealing my ignorance about debbugs (never had to run it myself), and I
know that debbugs needs configuration to make it work, but I hoped that
debbugs-local should work within user account and fetch/provide interface to
bugs relevant to a maintainer/user (as specified in DEBEMAIL).

Original announcement was:

  Once debbugs is uploaded to experimental (soon, I promise) and
  progresses through NEW[2], you can play with this by installing the
  debbugs-local package, and running:
  
  local-debbugs --mirror
  local-debbugs --daemon
  local-debbugs --search severity:serious
  local-debbugs --stop

So, I've installed local-debbugs (which installed debbugs-web etc), now,
running it:

$> local-debbugs --mirror
Unable to open configuration file /etc/debbugs/config for reading: No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debbugs/Config.pm line 995.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debbugs/Common.pm line 64.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debbugs/Common.pm line 64.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/local-debbugs line 107.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/local-debbugs line 107.

So, it does need initial configuration?

local-debbugs man page doesn't really describe usecases, nor there is
README for debbugs-local (btw -- why cmdline tool is not debbugs-local to match
the package name?)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages debbugs-local depends on:
ii  debbugs-web                   2.4.2~exp0 web scripts for the active Debian 
ii  libconfig-simple-perl         4.59-3     simple configuration file class
ii  libdebbugs-perl               2.4.2~exp0 modules used by the active Debian 
ii  libuser-perl                  1.6-2      Provides user data in an OS indepe
ii  rsync                         3.0.5-1    fast remote file copy program (lik

debbugs-local recommends no packages.

debbugs-local suggests no packages.

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