Bug#1119283: reportbug (as user): IndexError: list index out of range

[root <mathbugix@snafu.de>]

Package: reportbug
Version: 13.2.0
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: mathbugix@snafu.de

Dear Maintainer,

i reported an error with success ..
Afterwards i wanted to report another error (as user). This failed.
Afterwards i wanted to report a bug against reportbug-package ...

I got the following error:
...........................
  151)  #851393  GTK: crashes after suites selection (lfs, upstream etc.)  [RES
(147-151/151) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|e|?]? N
Maintainer for reportbug is 'Reportbug Maintainers <debian-reportbug@lists.debian.org>'.
Looking up dependencies of reportbug...
Getting status for related package python3-reportbug...
Looking up 'depends' of related package python3-reportbug...
Looking up 'suggests' of related package python3-reportbug...
Getting changed configuration files...
md5sum: /etc/reportbug.conf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2419, in <module>
    main()
    ~~~~^^
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1110, in main
    return iface.user_interface()
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1907, in user_interface
    confinfo, changed = utils.get_changed_config_files(
                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        conffiles, self.options.nocompress)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 1238, in get_changed_config_files
    filemd5 = get_command_output('md5sum ' + shlex.quote(filename)).split()[0]
              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^
IndexError: list index out of range

echo $?
1

I see:
md5sum: /etc/reportbug.conf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

But:
ls -l /etc/reportbug.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3229 19. Feb 2025  /etc/reportbug.conf

I solved this error by reporting this bug as root - oh oh oh



-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE=text

** /root/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "13.2.0"
mode novice
ui text
email "mathbugix@snafu.de"
no-check-uid
no-cc
list-cc-me
smtphost reportbug.debian.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.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  dlocate                                    <none>
pn  emacs-bin-common                           <none>
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.98.2-1
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