[Reportbug-maint] Bug#840003: reportbug: wrong reporting about bug

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.6.6
Severity: important

Here's the captured console log.

Need to get 0 B/89.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 11.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
critical bugs of cryptsetup (2:1.7.0-2 → 2:1.7.2-2) <Outstanding>
 b1 - #839994 - Newest version prevent boot of full encrypted disk
Summary:
 cryptsetup(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] 839994
Retrieving report #839994 from Debian bug tracking system...
No report available: #839994
No bug reports found.
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] 839994
Retrieving report #839994 from Debian bug tracking system...
No report available: #839994
No bug reports found.
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] 839994
Retrieving report #839994 from Debian bug tracking system...
What do you want to do now? [N|x|o|r|b|e|q|?]? 




As you can see, in the 3rd attempt, it was able to fetch the report. The
first 2 attempts failed because my router's ISP network was down.

Now, I expected reportbug to fail stating network timeout, with an
exception, or maybe a nice relevant message.

But instead it gave me the wrong impression that #839994 is not an
available/valid bug report.



-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
DEBEMAIL="rrs at debian.org"
DEBFULLNAME="Ritesh Raj Sarraf"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/rrs/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "6.6.3"
mode advanced
editor "editor"
ui text
realname "Ritesh Raj Sarraf"
email "rrs at debian.org"
no-cc
header "X-Debbugs-CC: rrs at debian.org"
smtphost reportbug.debian.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0brk0+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (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  file                                     1:5.28-4
ii  gnupg                                    2.1.15-3
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]           3.1.0-5+b1
ii  python-gtk2                              2.24.0-5
pn  python-gtkspellcheck                     <none>
ii  python-urwid                             1.3.1-2+b1
pn  python-vte                               <none>
ii  xdg-utils                                1.1.1-1

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.3.1
ii  file              1:5.28-4
ii  python-debian     0.1.29
ii  python-debianbts  2.6.1
pn  python:any        <none>

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information