[Reportbug-maint] Bug#604842: while using reportbug for linux-image, reportbug claims it is not installed

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi fulvio,
thanks for your bug report.

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 19:59, fulvio ciriaco <oivulf at gmail.com> wrote:
> The following excerpt of conversation with reportbug should explain
> the point
> 0% reportbug
> Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or type 'other' to
> report a more general problem.
>> linux-image
> linux-image package has been removed, use linux-2.6 instead (replaced here automatically).
> *** Welcome to reportbug.  Use ? for help at prompts. ***
> Detected character set: UTF-8
> Please change your locale if this is incorrect.
>
> Using 'fulvio ciriaco <oivulf at gmail.com>' as your from address.
> Getting status for linux-2.6...
> No matching source or binary packages.
> A package named "linux-2.6" does not appear to be installed; do you want to search for a
> similar-looking filename in an installed package [Y|n|q|?]? n

What's happening here is:

- 'linux-image' is automatically converted to 'linux-2.6'
- 'linux-2.6' is searched in the binary packages list, but not found
- then the source packages list is searched (and 'linux-2.6' would
have been found there) but there's no Sources file on your machine (no
deb-src in /etc/apt/sources.list)
- the search fails, as shown above.

I'm still wondering what to do in the case of linux-2.6, maybe I'll
have to "whitelist" it somehow, or just leave things as they are and
document it, let's wait a bit and see how it goes :)

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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