Re: Re^2: Intent to write: ITP

[Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:35:46AM -0400, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:

> While reportbug is useful, it has the disadvantage that the command
> 'reportbug wnpp' forces one to wait a fairly long time (while it downloads
> the current list of ITP, etc. packages) before one can start writing an ITP.

It's possible to skip the lookup with the -b option:

       -b, --no-query-bts
              Don't check the Debian bug tracking system  to  see
              if  this  problem has already been reported; useful
              for offline use or if you're  really  sure  it's  a
              bug.