Bug#1114456: reportbug: After a fresh Debian 12 or 13 install, reportbug remarks that it requires gir1.2-vte*

[Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>]

Package: reportbug

Version: 13.2.0

Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

After a fresh Debian 12 or 13 install, reportbug doesn't work in graphics mode

until gir1.2-vte* is installed. Is there a special reason it's not part of the

default installation instead of requiring users to install it?

   * What led up to the situation?

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

     ineffective)?

   * What was the outcome of this action?

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

I expected reportbug to work without needing additional packages.

-- Package-specific info:

** Environment settings:

INTERFACE=gtk

** /home/vsnyder/.reportbugrc:

reportbug_version "7.10.3+deb11u1"

mode standard

ui gtk

email "van.snyder@sbcglobal.net"

smtphost "smtp.mail.att.net"

smtpuser "van.snyder@sbcglobal.net"

smtptls

-- System Information:

Debian Release: 13.0

  APT prefers stable-updates

  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')

Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.41+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)

Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.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                3.0.3

ii  python3            3.13.5-1

ii  python3-reportbug  13.2.0

ii  sensible-utils     0.0.25

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:

pn  claws-mail                                            <none>

ii  debconf                                               1.5.91

pn  debsums                                               <none>

pn  default-mta | postfix | exim4 | mail-transport-agent  <none>

pn  dlocate                                               <none>

pn  emacs-bin-common                                      <none>

ii  file                                                  1:5.46-5

ii  gnupg                                                 2.4.7-21

pn  python3-urwid                                         <none>

pn  reportbug-gtk                                         <none>

ii  xdg-utils                                             1.2.1-2

Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:

ii  apt                3.0.3

ii  file               1:5.46-5

ii  python3            3.13.5-1

ii  python3-apt        3.0.0

ii  python3-debian     1.0.1

ii  python3-debianbts  4.1.1

ii  python3-requests   2.32.3+dfsg-5

ii  sensible-utils     0.0.25

python3-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information