[Reportbug-maint] Bug#638575: Error from dpkg --compare-versions when reporting a bug

[Sandro Tosi]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 23:43, Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:24:33PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 23:05, Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
>> > Package: reportbug
>> > Version: 6.1
>> > Severity: normal
>> >
>> > While attempting to report a bug:
>>
>> Please report the *whole* output of reportbug (not just some part of it).
>
> Full output follows, from the shell prompt to after the issue appears:
>
> ~$ reportbug qemu-kvm
> *** Welcome to reportbug.  Use ? for help at prompts. ***
> Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter).
> Detected character set: UTF-8
> Please change your locale if this is incorrect.
>
> Using 'Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>' as your from address.
> Getting status for qemu-kvm...
> Verifying package integrity...
> Checking for newer versions at packages.debian.org, incoming.debian.org and http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html
> dpkg: error: --compare-versions takes three arguments: <version> <relation> <version>
>
> Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
> Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
> Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
> Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
> Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
>
> Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or `more' !
> dpkg: error: --compare-versions takes three arguments: <version> <relation> <version>
>
> Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
> Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
> Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
> Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
> Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
>
> Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or `more' !
> Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
> Querying Debian BTS for reports on qemu-kvm (source)...

Mh, from this I can guess reportbug went on with the report, only you
got those spurious error messages - is that correct?

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