[Reportbug-maint] Bug#552503: reportbug: "could not open display" with no $DISPLAY defined

[Jonathan Neuschäfer]

Package: reportbug
Version: 4.8
Severity: minor

On starting reportbug I get this message while the DISPLAY environment variable is not defined:
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)

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

** /home/jonathan/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "4.8"
mode advanced
ui text
email "j.neuschaefer at gmx.net"
mta /usr/bin/esmtp

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                           0.7.24     Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  python                        2.5.4-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-reportbug              4.8        Python modules for interacting wit

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                          5.03-2     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gnupg                         1.4.10-2   GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
pn  postfix | exim4 | mail-transp <none>     (no description available)
ii  python-gtk2                   2.16.0-1   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
pn  python-gtkspell               <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-urwid                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-vte                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  xdg-utils                     <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information