NAME ^

parrotbug - Parrot Bug Reporter

SYNOPSIS ^

    % ./parrotbug [options] [actions]

DESCRIPTION ^

A program to help generate bug reports about parrot, and mail them. It is designed to be used interactively. Normally no arguments will be needed.

COMMAND-LINE SWITCHES ^

Options ^

Note: you will be prompted if the program miss some information.

--nok

Report unsuccessful build on this system to parrot developpers.

--ok

Report successful build on this system to parrot developpers Only use --ok if everything was ok; if there were any problems at all, use --nok.

--subject

Subject of the report. You will be prompted if you don't supply one on the command-line.

--category

Category of the bug report. You will be prompted if you don't supply one on the command-line.

--severity

Severity of the bug report. You will be prompted if you don't supply one on the command-line.

--address

Your email address. The program will try to guess one if you don't provide one, but you'll still need to validate it.

--editor

Editor to use for editing the bug report.

--ack, --noack

Don't send a bug received acknowledgement.

--input-file

File containing the body of the report. Use this to quickly send a prepared message.

--output-file

File where parrotbug will save its bug report, if you ask it to do so.

--to

Email adress to send report to. (for testing purposes only)

Actions ^

You can provide more than one action on the command-line. If none is supplied, then you will be prompted for what to do.

--dump

Dump formatted report on standard output.

--save

Save message to a file, in order for you to send it later from your own. See --output flag.

--send

Try to send a mail with the report.

--help

Print a short synopsis and exit.

--version

Print version information and exit.

AUTHORS ^

Jerome Quelin (<jquelin@cpan.org>), with lots of good stuff taken from perlbug.

SEE ALSO ^

perlbug(1), parrot(1), diff(1), patch(1)


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