[Reportbug-maint] Bug#548046: --ignore-permissions breaks reportbug when not available

[Michal Suchanek]

On 09/24/2009 09:17 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:09, Michal Suchanek
> <michal.suchanek at ruk.cuni.cz>  wrote:
>> It seems reportbug always only suggested debsums so debsums were installed
>> for completely different reason rather than resolving this suggest
>> dependency.
>
> Of course: if not present, it's not used.
>
>> Since reportbug cannot force debsums to be a particular version by suggests
>> it should handle cleanly the case when debsums aren't the newest version.
>
> No. Check the package relationships with other packages, install the
> relevant packages.
>
No, that's the packager's and apt's job.

Since earlier version worked with my debsums and current does not this is certainly a regression.

debsums has a --version option so you can use its output and check it in your scripts or devise some 
other means.

Thanks

Michal