I've never seen this problem in amstatus, and current versions of amanda in Debian are much newer than the version this bug was reported against in 2008.
Do you still see a problem? If not, I'll close this bug. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org