[Reportbug-maint] Bug#616455: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:50:05 -0400, micah wrote in message 
<87d3kbwswi.fsf at algae.riseup.net>:

> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:09:38 +0200, Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 17:06, micah anderson <micah at riseup.net>
> > wrote:
> > > micah at algae:~$ reportbug rails
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> > > Using 'Micah Anderson <micah at debian.org>' as your from address.
> > > Getting status for rails...
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2127, in <module>
> > >    main()
> > >  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1052, in main
> > >    return iface.user_interface()
> > >  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1409, in user_interface
> > >    packages = utils.packages_providing(package)
> > >  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/reportbug/utils.py", line
> > > 608, in packages_providing aret = get_package_info([((package,),
> > > package)], skip_notfound=True) File
> > > "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/reportbug/utils.py", line 583, in
> > > get_package_info vers = versob.search(p).group('vers')
> > > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
> > 
> > I'm not able to replicate this bug, so it's kinda difficult to me to
> > fix it, so I need a bit of help for you since you have the problem.
> >
> > First of all, can you still replicate it? is there something
> > strange/experimental (like multiarch, f.e.) on your machine? Can you
> > please post the output of these commands:
> 
> I have just updated my machine to the latest sid packages that are
> available at this moment, and it seems like I am not having the
> problem any more!
> 
> micah

..sid+experimental here, and all my reproduction attempts on 
this bug now fails.  I haven't tried abusive stunts such as 
'for b in `dpkg -l |cut -d"" -f3` ;do reportbug $b ;done', 
though.
 

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