[Reportbug-maint] Bug#846182: reportbug: Wrong package version detected when it contains a +

[Ben Longbons]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.6.6
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

While reporting a bug against binutils-mingw-w64, `reportbug` claimed it
was out-of-date:


Getting status for binutils-mingw-w64...
Checking for newer versions at madison...

Your version (2.27.51.20161105-2+7.2) of binutils-mingw-w64 appears to be out of date.
The following newer release(s) are available in the Debian archive:
  stable: 5.2+deb8u1
  testing: 7.2
  unstable: 7.2


But from <https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=binutils-mingw-w64>,
the available versions should be:

oldstable: 2.22-8+deb7u2+2+deb7u1
stable: 2.25-5+5.2+deb8u1
testing: 2.27.51.20161105-2+7.2
unstable: 2.27.51.20161105-2+7.2


-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
PAGER="less"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/ben/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "5.1.1"
mode standard
ui text
email "brlongbons at gmail.com"
smtphost smtp.gmail.com:587
smtpuser "brlongbons at gmail.com"
smtptls

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (600, 'testing-debug'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, x32

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-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 reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.3.1
ii  python-reportbug  6.6.6
pn  python:any        <none>

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                 <none>
pn  debconf-utils                              <none>
pn  debsums                                    <none>
pn  dlocate                                    <none>
pn  emacs23-bin-common | emacs24-bin-common    <none>
ii  exim4                                      4.88~RC4-2
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.88~RC4-2
ii  file                                       1:5.29-1
ii  gnupg                                      2.1.16-2
ii  python-gtk2                                2.24.0-5.1
pn  python-gtkspellcheck                       <none>
ii  python-urwid                               1.3.1-2+b1
ii  python-vte                                 1:0.28.2-5+b1
ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.1-1

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.3.1
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.

-- no debconf information