[Reportbug-maint] Bug#508825: cannot ctrl-c while package status is being checked

[martin f krafft]

Package: reportbug
Version: 3.47
Severity: minor

I am offline and forgot to pass -O to reportbug, but I did pass -b.
The next thing I knew is that reportbug was trying to be helpful:

*** Welcome to reportbug.  Use ? for help at prompts. ***
Detected character set: UTF-8
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.

  Checking for newer versions at packages.debian.org, incoming.debian.org and
  http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html

Yes, helpful, I am not being facetious. However, I don't have
a network connection, not even a default route or nameserver, and
when reportbug ended up just sitting there (a bug of its own?),
I wanted to correct the command line, but ctrl-c doesn't work,
only ctrl-\ does.

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim"
VISUAL="/usr/bin/vim"
DEBEMAIL="madduck at debian.org"
DEBFULLNAME="martin f. krafft"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/madduck/.reportbugrc:
mode expert
ui text
mutt
query-bts
check-available
compress
config-files
verify
no-cc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                           0.7.18     Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  python                        2.5.2-3    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central                0.6.8      register and build utility for Pyt

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  debconf-utils                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  debsums                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  dlocate                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  file                          4.26-1     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gnupg                         1.4.9-3    GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.5.5-1.1  High-performance mail transport ag
pn  python-urwid                  <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information


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