Bug#263483: for Sarge+1, rewrite bug-buddy as a GUI reporter for BTS

[Martin-Ăric Racine]

Package: bug-buddy
Version: 2.6.1-3
Severity: wishlist

In its current incarnation, bug-buddy is barely usable, because the "list of top Gnome bugs" makes no sense when you 
already know which package you're about to file a bug against and because the bug report is sent to a different place 
than the rest of the Debian system (upstream to the Gnome Foundation's bugzilla, instead of Debian's BTS).  

The idea, for the release following Sarge, would be to rewrite bug-buddy into something well-integrated with this
vendor's distribution, namely to submit bugs to the vendor's own bug reporting system, the BTS.

The overall concept would be to keep the current 'strace' catching abilities and overall GUI design of bug-buddy, but
to hard-code the submiting address to submit@bugs.debian.org and add classification of the report following the BTS'
severity levels and optional tags, so that bug-buddy actually shows real usefulness within the context of Debian.
However, in order to ensure that the system remains usefull to Gnome's upstream developers, the BTS will have to be
improved so that an optional BTS tag exists to automatically trigger a forward of the BTS entry to upstream Gnome.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-imac
Locale: LANG=fi_FI@euro, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro

Versions of packages bug-buddy depends on:
ii  gdb                       6.1-3          The GNU Debugger
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-5       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-4        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.2-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.4-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2        2.6.1-2        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1-8        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-3      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.1.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.4-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.0-4        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.6-2          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-2       GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-8       A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-5    compression library - runtime

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