Description is quite often (should be even) longer than one line. We should offer a text editor ($EDITOR) to edit it instead of requiring it as -d parameter.
Suggesting -D (without value) as parameter to open $EDITOR for description.
suggested patch 0001-Add-D-option-to-edit-description-for-new-ticket-in-E.patch
It is in this [http://gitorious.org/git-tools/fedora-packager/commit/f4e6eda31a6dbfdb54bc9402d942042ac0b95b50 commit] on gitorious repository.
suggested patch 0003-Add-ability-to-edit-longer-texts-in-editor.patch
Updated version of the patch.
next branch of https://gitorious.org/git-tools/fedora-packager has been rebased to the latest master.
Fixed in [9a32838]