On 29 Aug 2019 Michael Meier wrote:
I wanted to report a bug for linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64. I've used reportbug-ng to find out if the bug was already reported. Yes, I know it's not maintained anymore, but it still just works better to find existing bug reports. The bug was already reported. The Bug number is 935852. Then I wanted to add some information to the bug so I've tried to find it again with querybts linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64 But it doesn't find it at all, it also can't find it for linux-image-amd64 or any other similar package I've tried out.
Thank you for the report. I've tried to reproduce and can confirm the problem. However, I don't think this is a bug in reportbug:
- The binary package names you list (linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64, linux-image-amd64) belong to the source package linux-signed-amd64.
- The bug you've been looking for was reported against a different source package (linux). Reportbug doesn't query bug reports across multiple source packages, so the bug was evidently not listed.
To search bugs across different packages, you are better off using a web search, see https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ or https://udd.debian.org/bugs/ Such complex bug searches are beyond what is reasonable for a simple tool like reportbug.
I'm not familiar with reportbug-ng so I cannot tell how you managed to find the bug there. In any case, if you already have the bug number and want to submit followup information, you can use "reportbug -N $BUG".
Hope this helps.