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Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling



On Monday 26 July 2010 11:54:29 Marc Haber wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:32:49 -0400, Will <ay1244@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Additionally, an HTTP interface to reportbug would be a good idea.
> >Many new users find it difficult or unnecessary to set up an MTA when
> >they first install, so allowing to use some kind of HTTP interface
> >would be very nice indeed.
> 
> This will decrease the quality of bugs even more since the bug reports
> are not going to contain even the minimum of information collected by
> reportbug.
> 
> Greetings
> Marc

Here's a template reportbug prints out for iceweasel.

Subject: none

Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.6.3-1
Severity: wishlist



-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: Default
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled

-- Plugins information
Name: IcedTea NPR Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea6 1.8 (6b18-1.8-4))
Location: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
Package: icedtea6-plugin
Status: enabled

Name: Shockwave Flash
Location: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
Status: enabled

Name: Silverlight Plug-In
Location: /usr/lib/moon/plugin/libmoonloader.so
Package: moonlight-plugin-core
Status: enabled

Name: Skype Buttons for Kopete
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/skypebuttons.so
Package: kopete
Status: enabled

Name: VLC Multimedia Plug-in
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so
Package: mozilla-plugin-vlc
Status: enabled


-- Addons package information
ii  icedtea6-plugi 6b18-1.8-4     web browser plugin based on OpenJDK and Iced
ii  iceweasel      3.6.3-1        Web browser based on Firefox
ii  kopete         4:4.4.5-1      instant messaging and chat application
ii  moonlight-plug 1.0.1-3+b1     Free Software clone of Silverlight 1.0 - plu
ii  mozilla-plugin 1.1.1-1        multimedia plugin for web browsers based on 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils                   3.4        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig                    2.8.0-2.1  generic font configuration library
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared 
lib
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.1-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.20.1-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnspr4-0d                   4.8.4-2    NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.4-7    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  procps                        1:3.2.8-9  /proc file system utilities
ii  psmisc                        22.12-1    utilities that use the proc file s
ii  xulrunner-1.9.2               1.9.2.3-2  XUL + XPCOM application runner

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2            1.8.1+dfsg-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - 
k
pn  mozplugger                  <none>       (no description available)
ii  ttf-lyx                     1.6.7-1      TrueType versions of some TeX 
font
pn  ttf-mathematica4.1          <none>       (no description available)
ii  xfonts-mathml               4            Type1 Symbol font for MathML
pn  xprint                      <none>       (no description available)

Versions of packages xulrunner-1.9.2 depends on:
ii  libasound2              1.0.23-1         shared library for ALSA 
applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.30.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-4          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-2         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared 
lib
ii  libcairo2               1.9.6-6          The Cairo 2D vector graphics 
libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-2         simple interprocess messaging 
syst
ii  libffi5                 3.0.9-2          Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.0-2          FreeType 2 font engine, shared 
lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.4-7        GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.1-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.20.1-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhunspell-1.2-0       1.2.11-1         spell checker and morphological 
an
ii  libjpeg62               6b1-1            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libmozjs3d              1.9.2.3-2        The Mozilla SpiderMonkey 
JavaScrip
ii  libnspr4-0d             4.8.4-2          NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d              3.12.6-3         Network Security Service 
libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.1-1         Layout and rendering of 
internatio
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.44-1         PNG library - runtime
ii  libreadline6            6.1-3            GNU readline and history 
libraries
ii  libsqlite3-0            3.6.23.1-4       SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstartup-notification 0.10-1           library for program launch feedbac
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.4-7          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.6-1        X Rendering Extension client 
libra
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

-- no debconf information

Now with some additional prompts to the user to get subject and body, I don't 
see how a web app that can get this same information as reportbug can not be 
developed.

-- 
Regards,
Andres Mejia


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