Bug#1002906: reportbug should give a hint on how to check if a bug is still available in a newer release of a package
Package: reportbug
Version: 7.10.3+deb11u1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
When I ran "reportbug ifupdown-extra" because of a wrong systemd service
file it provides that I ran into after upgrading from debian 10 to
debian 11, reportbug told me newer release(s) were already available in
testing and unstable and I should verify whether or not the bug still
exists there. However reportbug didn't tell me how to do this.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I searched for a while to find a way to access the source of
ifupdown-extra.
* What was the outcome of this action?
I finally found the source of the package after a searching on
packages.debian.org
* What outcome did you expect instead?
reportbug should point me to the correct place directly, like in this
case for example to
https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/ifupdown-extra for the new
release in testing.
A more novice user wouldn't have been able to verify if the bug he is
about to report was already fixed because he would be lost how to find
the source.
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim"
PAGER="less"
INTERFACE="text"
** /home/thomas/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "7.5.3~deb10u1"
mode standard
ui text
email "jean-luc@picard.franken.de"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 2.2.4
ii python3 3.9.2-3
ii python3-reportbug 7.10.3+deb11u1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.14
reportbug recommends no packages.
Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn claws-mail <none>
ii debconf-utils 1.5.77
ii debsums 3.0.2
ii dlocate 1.07+nmu1
pn emacs-bin-common <none>
ii file 1:5.39-3
ii gnupg 2.2.27-2
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.5.6-1+b1
ii python3-urwid 2.1.2-1
pn reportbug-gtk <none>
ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1
Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii apt 2.2.4
ii file 1:5.39-3
ii python3 3.9.2-3
ii python3-apt 2.2.1
ii python3-debian 0.1.39
ii python3-debianbts 3.1.0
ii python3-requests 2.25.1+dfsg-2
ii sensible-utils 0.0.14
python3-reportbug suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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