[Reportbug-maint] Bug#455653: reportbug: When prompting for version, show available versions

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Sat Jun 19 21:18:19 UTC 2010


On 2007-12-10 19:46:07 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> When prompting for the version of the package a bug applies to, please
> list the available versions and where they come from, similar to
> apt-cache policy.  This would make it much easier to report a bug on
> an uninstalled package, or on a package downgraded to deal with a bug.

The lack of this feature seems to cause some users to submit bugs
against an incorrect version. See

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586161#51

for instance.

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