[Reportbug-maint] Bug#849564: python3-reportbug: reportbug fails with AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'utils'

[Matthew Gabeler-Lee]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.1.1
Followup-For: Bug #849564

This bug seems like it maybe should be higher severity than 'normal'.  On
systems that have 7.1.1 installed, I can't seem to run reportbug no matter
what I do.  It seems from scanning the problem python code that I would need
to not have a realname associated with the sending account at all.

Since I'm assuming the package didn't go out the door not working at all for
everyone ... is there a trick to getting past this problem other than
downgrading reportbug?  I tried moving aside my .reportbugrc and clearing
any environment variables that provide a realname, but it seems I would have
to also empty the GECOS field for my account in /etc/passwd to get around
this?

NB: I've only tried the text UI, not sure if this maybe doesn't affect the
GTK UI in the same way?

-- Package-specific info:
** /home/cheetah/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "6.3.1"
mode advanced

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.4~beta2
ii  file              1:5.29-1
ii  python-debian     0.1.29
ii  python-debianbts  2.6.1
pn  python:any        <none>

python-reportbug suggests no packages.