[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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