Bug#1009656: reportbug: with bullseye-pu, claims "This package doesn't appear to exist"
Package: reportbug
Version: 11.4.1
Severity: normal
I just had the following interaction with reportbug:
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erdos:~ $ reportbug release.debian.org
*** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. ***
Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter).
Detected character set: UTF-8
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.
Using 'Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>' as your from address.
Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
What sort of request is this? (If none of these things mean anything to you, or
you are trying to report a bug in an existing package, please press Enter to
exit reportbug.)
1 binnmu binNMU requests
2 britney testing migration script bugs
3 bullseye-pu bullseye proposed updates requests
4 buster-pu buster proposed updates requests
5 other None of the other options
6 rm Stable/Testing removal requests
7 transition transition tracking
8 unblock unblock requests
Choose the request type: 3
Please enter the name of the package: spyder
Checking package information...
This package doesn't appear to exist; continue [y|N|?]? y
Latest version seems to be 4.2.1+dfsg1-3, is this the proper one [Y|n|?]?
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It says the package doesn't appear to exist, but then knows it's
version number!
Best wishes,
Julian
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="emacs -nw"
PAGER="less"
VISUAL="emacs -nw"
DEBEMAIL="jdg@debian.org"
DEBFULLNAME="Julian Gilbey"
INTERFACE="text"
** /home/jdg/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.15"
mode expert
ui text
realname "Julian Gilbey"
email "jdg@debian.org"
no-query-bts
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 2.4.4
ii python3 3.9.8-1
ii python3-reportbug 11.4.1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.17
reportbug recommends no packages.
Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn claws-mail <none>
ii debconf 1.5.79
ii debsums 3.0.2
ii dlocate 1.10
ii emacs-bin-common 1:27.1+1-3.1+b1
ii exim4 4.95-5
ii exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-transport-agent] 4.95-5
ii file 1:5.41-2
ii gnupg 2.2.27-3
pn python3-urwid <none>
pn reportbug-gtk <none>
ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1
Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii apt 2.4.4
ii file 1:5.41-2
ii python3 3.9.8-1
ii python3-apt 2.3.0+b1
ii python3-debian 0.1.43
ii python3-debianbts 3.2.0
ii python3-requests 2.27.1+dfsg-1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.17
python3-reportbug suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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