Hi,

Here a patch to allow use of XDG_CONFIG_HOME/debian/reportbugrc for settings.
Reading ~/.reportbugrc is still provided for convenience.

Regards,
Rodolphe

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what's the advantage? why under the 'debian' namespace?

Regards,

Le 06/06/2015 17:34, Sandro Tosi a écrit :

Mainly, organize config files in home directory in following the xdg
basedir spec [1]. Note that this patch didn't remove the previous config
file path, it just adds the possibility to move the config file in this
new xdg dir.

Well, I guess I would like that most config files related to debian
tools are in the same place (I proposed similar patches that purpose to
dput [2] and git-buildpackage [3] for now).

But if XDG_CONFIG_HOME/debian dir is not appropriate,
XDG_CONFIG_HOME/reportbugrc would be ok.

Regards,
Rodolphe

[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787840
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787519

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I've just poked #625654 about this, but it's not clear that reportbug is
inherently Debian-specific. I also think that since they're separate
applications written by separate developers, a 'debian' subdirectory would not
be suitable.

There's another bug to use ~/.config/ with the same intent, so I'm merging that
in.

Not sure if anyone has proposed updated ways to do it, but I made a minimal
patch that implements it
with fallback to legacy config. It's not trying to move anything, just
using XDG base dir if it's a new installation
and picking legacy config if it already exists. It allows to start using it
for fresh installs and not breaking it for old
ones which is a simple temporary compromise.

See attached.

Regards,
Shmerl.