Bug#532150: Bug#865792: reportbug: Allow an arbitrary MUA to be configured (patch)

[Nis Martensen <nis.martensen@web.de>]

> Dave Steele <dsteele@gmail.com> hat am 22.06.2020 20:29 geschrieben:
>  
>  If I can interpret, it sounds like there are two options on the table -
>  something looking like
>  https://salsa.debian.org/reportbug-team/reportbug/-/merge_requests/24,
>  or a reportbug-ng port. The MR needs, at a minimum, elimination
>  of the version option, and clarity in the documentation re supported
>  and unsupported MUAs. More complete attachment support would be gravy.
>  
>  Eliminating the concept of the MUA from reportbug would be attractive.
>  Require xdg support?

While the current MUA concept in reportbug is limited, I don't want to break the parts that are actually working. This stuff needs to keep working even in text-only environments, so xdg support can only be added as a new option. That's also why I think there is value in a custom mua option outside xdg. I agree that adding an xdg-email option as a first step is likely to cover the most common case and will be a huge improvement already. Custom mua support can be the next step.