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Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script



On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> writes:
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:21:30PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 
> > The prompts about configuration files could probably be handled by
> > having something like a new /usr/share/bug file listing configuration
> > that may be desirable.  The frontend can then do something sensible with
> > the information, at the very least collapsing multiple prompts into a
> > single warning.
> 
> Yes -- how much of the interactivity would be taken care of by just having
> some way for bug scripts to indicate that the user should be asked "may I
> include the following files from your system in the bug report?" and the
> results exported in an environment variable or something?

debug logs or other files may get too long for a variable but a
temporary file would do the job. That's enough interactivity for my
scripts, anyway.

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Neil Williams
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