[Reportbug-maint] Bug#502860: reportbug: Gets wrong maintainer for no longer installed packages
Ansgar Burchardt
ansgar at 2008.43-1.org
Mon Oct 20 11:23:23 UTC 2008
Package: reportbug
Version: 3.45
Severity: minor
Hi,
Reportbug sometimes looks up the wrong maintainer for packages that have
been removed from the system.
The output from "dpkg --print-avail" can be wrong if the package is no longer
installed. Reportbug should not use this information for these packages. For
example on my system I get this:
% dpkg --print-avail nntp
Package: nntp
Priority: extra
Section: news
Installed-Size: 244
Maintainer: Hamish Moffatt <hamish at debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.5.12.1-8
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), cnews
Conflicts: inn
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/news/nntp_1.5.12.1-8.deb
Size: 69226
MD5sum: a8c09d9a778c50ebd9cdbf8b6f741c23
Description: A NNTP server for use with C News.
Note that the output still refers to potato, and the maintainer information is
wrong since 2003.
Regards,
Ansgar
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 0.7.14+b1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii python 2.5.2-2 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:
ii debconf-utils 1.5.22 debconf utilities
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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