Package: reportbug Version: 7.5.0 Severity: normal When preparing a bug report against elpa-debian-el, I noticed that reportbug would one of the packages it depends on (emacsen-common) as "not installed". It turns out that this package was actually installed, but set on hold. Here is some useful output to help reproducing the issue:
,---- | $ export LANG=C | $ apt-cache policy emacsen-common | emacsen-common: | Installed: 2.0.8 | Candidate: 3.0.2 | Version table: | 3.0.2 500 | 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages | 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main i386 Packages | *** 2.0.8 100 | 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status | $ echo emacsen-common install | sudo dpkg --set-selections | $ reportbug --template elpa-debian-el 2>/dev/null | grep -C3 emacsen-common | Versions of packages elpa-debian-el depends on: | ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 | ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1 | ii emacsen-common 2.0.8 | ii reportbug 7.5.0 | ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 | | $ echo emacsen-common hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections | $ reportbug --template elpa-debian-el 2>/dev/null | grep -C3 emacsen-common | Versions of packages elpa-debian-el depends on: | ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 | ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1 | pn emacsen-common <none> | ii reportbug 7.5.0 | ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 `---- In the output of the last command, I would have expected emacsen-common to be reported as hi emacsen-common 2.0.8 instead. -- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings: EDITOR="emacsclient -a emacs" PAGER="/bin/cat" VISUAL="emacsclient -a emacs" EMAIL="[email protected]" DEBFULLNAME="Sven Joachim" NAME="Sven Joachim" ** /home/sven/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "4.0" mode expert ui text offline email "[email protected]" no-cc header "X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]"
-- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.17.12-pavil (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.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 1.6.3 ii python3 3.6.6-1 ii python3-reportbug 7.5.0 ii sensible-utils 0.0.12 reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn claws-mail <none> ii debconf-utils 1.5.69 pn debsums <none> pn dlocate <none> ii emacs25-bin-common 25.2+1-6+b3 ii file 1:5.33-3 ii gnupg 2.2.9-1 ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.3.0-1+b1 pn python3-urwid <none> pn reportbug-gtk <none> ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-1 Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on: ii apt 1.6.3 ii file 1:5.33-3 ii python3 3.6.6-1 ii python3-apt 1.6.2 ii python3-debian 0.1.32 ii python3-debianbts 2.7.2 ii python3-requests 2.18.4-2 python3-reportbug suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
