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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