[Reportbug-maint] Bug#502860: reportbug: Gets wrong maintainer for no longer installed packages

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Ansgar,

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 13:23, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at 2008.43-1.org> wrote:
> 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:

But isn't it a bug in dpkg then? I can feel like --print-avail should
print only "available" package, and nntp was no longer available on
your system. I can't think an easy way to fix this if not switching to
apt-cache or some other tool.

I'm open to suggestions, in particular from dpkg guys.

Cheers,
Sandro

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