Bug#1043146: reportbug: Text suggests a bug is being reported against wrong package
Package: reportbug
Version: 12.0.0
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: T.Duehrsen@gmx.net
Dear Maintainer,
After interrupting and later continuing work on reporting a bug
against the ntpsec package, the "reportbug" text UI suggests I was
reporting a bug against the reportbug package, which is incorrect.
Cf. lines 5, 19, 37 the following transcript:
1 [...]
2 Please select tags: (one at a time) [none]
3 Spawning mousepad...
4 Report will be sent to Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
5 Submit this report on ntpsec (e to edit) [Y|n|a|c|e|i|l|m|p|q|d|t|?]? ?
6 Y - (default) Submit the bug report via email.
7 n - Don't submit the bug report; instead, save it in a temporary file (exits reportbug).
8 a - Attach a file.
9 c - Change editor and re-edit.
10 e - Re-edit the bug report.
11 i - Include a text file.
12 l - Pipe the message through the pager.
13 m - Choose a mailer to edit the report.
14 p - Print message to stdout.
15 q - Save it in a temporary file and quit.
16 d - Detach an attachment file.
17 t - Add tags.
18 ? - Display this help.
19 Submit this report on ntpsec (e to edit) [Y|n|a|c|e|i|l|m|p|q|d|t|?]? q
20 Bug report written to a temporary file.
21 You can resume the unsent report using:
22 reportbug -r /tmp/reportbug-ntpsec-20230806191615-5hx3vtse
23 Thank you for using reportbug
24
25 [tdu:debiantutor] ~
26 reportbug -r /tmp/reportbug-ntpsec-20230806191615-5hx3vtse
27 *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. ***
28 Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter).
29 Detected character set: UTF-8
30 Please change your locale if this is incorrect.
31
32 Using 'Thure Dührsen <T.Duehrsen@gmx.net>' as your from address.
33 Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
34
35 Spawning mousepad...
36 Report will be sent to Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
37 Submit this report on reportbug (e to edit) [Y|n|a|c|e|i|l|m|p|q|d|t|?]? ?
38 Y - (default) Submit the bug report via email.
39 n - Don't submit the bug report; instead, save it in a temporary file (exits reportbug).
40 [...]
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="nano"
VISUAL="mousepad"
INTERFACE="text"
** /home/tdu/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "12.0.0"
mode standard
ui text
realname "Thure Dührsen"
email "T.Duehrsen@gmx.net"
no-cc
list-cc-me
smtphost reportbug.debian.org
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 2.6.1
ii python3 3.11.2-1+b1
ii python3-reportbug 12.0.0
ii sensible-utils 0.0.17+nmu1
reportbug recommends no packages.
Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn claws-mail <none>
ii debconf 1.5.82
pn debsums <none>
pn dlocate <none>
ii emacs-bin-common 1:28.2+1-15
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.96-15
ii file 1:5.44-3
ii gnupg 2.2.40-1.1
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 2.6.1
ii file 1:5.44-3
ii python3 3.11.2-1+b1
ii python3-apt 2.6.0
ii python3-debian 0.1.49
ii python3-debianbts 4.0.1
ii python3-requests 2.28.1+dfsg-1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.17+nmu1
python3-reportbug suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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