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Bug#932383: reportbug: fails to report against Multi-Arch library, such as libc6



control: severity -1 normal
control: tags -1 patch

On 18 Jul 2019 Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Why do I have to select the package manually, TWICE, and the second
prompt does not even show which is which (the normal user would be
confused from the same entry showing up two or more times), and it
doesn’t even detect the version right?

The problem is that reportbug internally using
  dpkg --status <packagename>
breaks with ambiguous package names, like "libc6" if you have multiple architecture binaries of that package installed. To work around the problem, you can append the arch qualifier as in "reportbug libc6:i386".

To fix this within reportbug, we need to make sure we call dpkg --status with unambiguous package name in such cases. Merge request:
https://salsa.debian.org/reportbug-team/reportbug/merge_requests/30


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