[Reportbug-maint] Bug#619870: Please redirect 'kernel' to 'linux-image-$(uname -r)'

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Ben,
thanks for your report.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 05:53, Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 5.0
> Severity: normal
>
> If a user tries to report a bug on 'kernel', they are redirected to
> 'linux-2.6'.  Since that is not the name of a binary package, they
> then get a long list of packages to choose from:
>
>  1 firmware-linux-free             Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
>  2 linux-base                      Linux image base package
> [...]
> 18 linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64      Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs
> 19 linux-image-2.6.37-2-amd64      Linux 2.6.37 for 64-bit PCs
> 20 linux-image-2.6.38-1-amd64      Linux 2.6.38 for 64-bit PCs
> [...]
> 37 linux-2.6                       Source package
>
> Possibly as a result of this, we get a fair number of reports against
> linux-base or linux-2.6 (source package) which should have been made
> against the appropriate linux-image package.  These reports do not
> include much of the useful information that our bug script would
> generate.
>
> I tried installing a bug script for linux-2.6 as if it was a binary
> package, but that just confuses reportbug:
>
> Looking up status of additional packages...
> 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 1726, in user_interface
>    package, [[x] for x in supplemental], rel='is related to')
>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/reportbug/utils.py", line 627, in get_dependency_info
>    for info in get_package_info(dependencies):
>  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'

Nah, that's another bug (#616455) :) I ran:

sudo cp -a /usr/share/bug/linux-image-2.6.38-1-amd64/ /usr/share/bug/linux-2.6

and reporting a bug against linux-2.6 actually calls the
presubj/script+subscripts as if it was a binpkg. I don't know if
providing such directory could be feasable for you, but at least we
have a chance.

> Please can you redirect 'kernel' to 'linux-image-$(uname -r)' instead
> when reportbug is running on Linux?

as said in your presubj, it might happen that the reporter is not
running the kernel with problems (because it doesn't boot or so): what
should reportbug do in this case? still trying to assing it to
'linux-image-$(uname -r)' ? Another interesting question is: what to
do if the reporter is running a custom-built kernel but wants to
report a bug for a Debian kernel?

>  (You should presumably do
> something different on kFreeBSD.)

And what would that be? :) /me haz no freebsd to play with.

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