Bug#398444: Etch: reportbug hangs on BTS query preventing reporting of problems in Etch release

[Graham Cobb <g+debian@cobb.uk.net>]

Package: reportbug
Version: 3.30
Severity: important

I am unable to report most bugs with Etch due to reportbug hanging while 
querying BTS.

It works for reportbug (fortunately!) but when I tried to report a kernel 
problem it hung after the message:

Querying Debian BTS for reports on linux-2.6 (source)...

I had the same problem trying to report a kdepim problem.  In that case I 
eventually entered the report into the upstream bug tracker, but this loses
visibility of it as an Etch problem.

I note that there is a newer reportbug in unstable, and some resolved bug
reports which may be related.  However, either this is a different problem or
the fix is not in the testing release -- which pretty much defeats the object
of the testing release.  I run testing so that I can find and report problems!

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
VISUAL="emacs"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/cobb/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "2.63"
mode advanced
ui text
realname "Graham Cobb"
email "g+debian@cobb.uk.net"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IE@euro)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  python                        2.4.3-11   An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central                0.5.8      register and build utility for Pyt

Versions of packages reportbug recommends:
pn  python-cjkcodecs | python-ico <none>     (no description available)

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