control: tags 882130 + patch On 5 Jan 2018 Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > this fix removes the error output of apt-cache showsrc when there is no > deb-src. > > reportbug-7.1.7: > > $ reportbug release.debian.org > [..] > Choose the request type: 7 > Please enter the name of the package: ros-bond-core > Checking status database... > E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list > This package doesn't appear to exist; continue? [y|N|?]? > > reportbug-7.1.8: > > $ reportbug release.debian.org > [..] > Choose the request type: 7 > Please enter the name of the package: ros-bond-core > Checking status database... > This package doesn't appear to exist; continue? [y|N|?]? > > The "E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list" is > missing, because it's redirected to stdout. But in this case it helps a > lot. I was not able to reproduce the libc6 bug, but I would propose to > redirect stderr for that command to /dev/null (as done for others as > well) instead.
Here is a merge request to restore stderr output: https://salsa.debian.org/reportbug-team/reportbug/merge_requests/8
