This is mostly a note pad for myself with quick instructions about how to create a bug report for Debian and edit it and send it with Evolution.
reportbug
is Debian’s tool for sending bug reports. Although it is a nice tool that automatizes most of this process, it only supports some email clients for the final steps of editing the message (and send it). Among these programs is not Evolution, my preferred mail application.
Fortunately, there is a way to work around this problem. The way of doing it is by placing the mbox
file created by reportbug
into Evolution’s local Drafts folder. As we can read on its manual, Evolution stores the user’s data files at $HOME/.local/share/evolution
.
By doing a simple check around that path, we can conclude the following solution: first, we generate the bug report and place the output in the proper location, as in this command:
$ reportbug -o ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Drafts/new/reportbug-mail.mbox
After finishing walking through reportbug
‘s wizard, the only action left is launching Evolution and opening a new email that has appeared in the local Drafts folder, finish editing it (attaching files, etc.) and send it.