Package: reportbug Version: 7.5.3 Severity: normal Hi,
I just noticed this issue with reportbug; $ reportbug date *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter). Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Witold Baryluk <witold.bary...@gmail.com>' as your from address. Getting status for date... W: Unable to locate package date No matching source or binary packages. A package named "date" does not appear to be installed; do you want to search for a similar-looking filename in an installed package [Y|n|q|?]? Finding package for 'date'... Resolved as '/usr/bin/date'. No packages match. This package does not appear to be installed; continue with this report [y|N|q|?]? reportbug: exiting due to user interrupt. $ $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games $ $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/date dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/date $ $ dpkg -S /bin/date coreutils: /bin/date $ $ ls -l / | grep bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Oct 10 14:23 bin -> usr/bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 10 14:23 sbin -> usr/sbin $ reportbug can probably be smarter here about this. There might be multiple ways to solve this problem, but one of the simpler ones might be to inspect all elements of PATH, or add special cases for {/usr,}/bin and {/usr,}/sbin. Best regards, Witold -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: INTERFACE="text" ** /home/user/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "7.5.3" mode standard ui text realname "Witold Baryluk" email "witold.bary...@gmail.com" no-cc list-cc-me smtphost reportbug.debian.org -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 1.8.4 ii python3 3.7.5-1 ii python3-reportbug 7.5.3 ii sensible-utils 0.0.12 reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: ii claws-mail 3.17.4-1+b1 pn debconf-utils <none> ii debsums 2.2.3 pn dlocate <none> ii emacs-bin-common 1:26.3+1-1 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.92.2-3+b1 ii file 1:5.37-5 ii gnupg 2.2.17-3 ii python3-urwid 2.0.1-2+b1 pn reportbug-gtk <none> ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-1 Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on: ii apt 1.8.4 ii file 1:5.37-5 ii python3 3.7.5-1 ii python3-apt 1.8.4 ii python3-debian 0.1.36 ii python3-debianbts 2.8.2 ii python3-requests 2.21.0-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.12 python3-reportbug suggests no packages. -- no debconf information