[Reportbug-maint] Bug#712415: reportbug: doesn't notice installed foreign-architecture packages

[Ben Finney]

Control: retitle -1 reportbug: doesn't notice installed foreign-architecture packages
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
Control: severity -1 normal

On 15-Jun-2013, merlin wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 6.4.4
> Severity: important

I don't see a justification in the reported behaviour for a severity
higher than “normal”. I'm setting the metadata accordingly.

> When i want to write a reportbug for an packet it does not find the
> packet on my system Sid AMD64

Can you give a simple way to reproduce this? I am not able to install
i386 packages on an amd64 system; APT refuses to install the packages.

What is a simple recipe to follow, to see the behaviour you describe?

> for sample i want to report a bug on the packet libkrb5-3 it say
> that the packet is not on my system :

Please show the exact ‘reportbug’ command you run, and the exact error
output.

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Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>
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