[Reportbug-maint] Bug#763153: reportbug: Reports held packages as purged ones

[Sven Joachim]

Control: retitle -1 reportbug: wrongly reports python:any as uninstalled
Control: merge 749884 -1

On 2014-09-28 11:19 +0200, Robert Luberda wrote:

> Package: reportbug
> Version: 6.5.1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just run 
>   dpkg-hold python && aptitude hold python
>
> so now `dpkg -l python' shows
>   hi  python               2.7.8-1         i386            interactive high-level object-oriented languag
>
> reportbug however seems to fail to properly interpret the above line,
> and, as you can see below, shows python as an uninstalled package.

This has nothing to do with python being on hold, rather reportbug does
not understand the python:any dependency.  Which is maybe not too
surprising since "dpkg-query -l python:any" reports "no packages found
matching python:any".

Cheers,
       Sven