[Reportbug-maint] reportbug 4.12.6 on Debian testing is seriously broken

[J G Miller]

  Please briefly describe your problem ...

  > reportbug is seriously broken

  How would you rate the severity of this problem or report?
  Please select a severity level: [normal] 4

The following occurs irrespective of which level is selected,
even if it is set as normal by default in /etc/reportbug.conf

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  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2098, in <module> main()
    File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1045, in main
         return iface.user_interface()
    File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1990, in user_interface
         issource=self.options.source)
    File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/reportbug/utils.py", line 745, in
         generate_blank_report debsumsoutput=debsumsoutput,
         issource=issource)
    File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/reportbug/bugreport.py", line
         43, in __init__ self.type = type
    File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/reportbug/bugreport.py", line
         59, in tset raise AttributeError, 'invalid report type'
    AttributeError: invalid report type

The above error occurs both with the distributed reportbug.conf
unmodified and if it is customized.

ii  python     2.6.6-3+squeeze5  interactive high-level object-oriented
                                 language (default version
ii  reportbug  4.12.6            reports bugs in the Debian distribution

Contents of ${HOME}/.reportbugrc


#*****************************************************************************#
#|
#|  file : ${HOME}/.reportbugrc
#|
#*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*#
#
reportbug_version       "4.12.6"
#
#.............................................................................#
#
mode                    standard
#
ui                      text
#
#.............................................................................#
#
email                   "miller at yoyo.ORG"
#
realname                "J G Miller"
#
smtphost                localhost
#
#*****************************************************************************#


Please advise on how to get reportbug working as other important
bugs need to be reported.

Thank you for your assistance,
J G Miller