[Reportbug-maint] Bug#666469: reportbug: reports bug assigned to the wrong package (multi-arch problem?)

[Michal Suchanek]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.3.1
Followup-For: Bug #666469

Hello,

In my view this is a RC bug since it is impossible to report bugs on
multiarch packages - see below:

$ dpkg -l libxml2
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                          Version
Description
+++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
ii  libxml2:amd64                 2.7.8.dfsg-4ubuntu0.1ma3      GNOME
XML library
ii  libxml2:i386                  2.7.8.dfsg-4ubuntu0.1ma3      GNOME
XML library


$ reportbug libxml2

** (process:29627): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype
'GMountMountFlags' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'

** (process:29627): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype
'GDriveStartFlags' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'

** (process:29627): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype
'GSocketMsgFlags' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
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Getting status for libxml2...
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1 libxml2             GNOME XML library
2 libxml2-dbg         Debugging symbols for the GNOME XML library
3 libxml2-dev         Development files for the GNOME XML library
4 libxml2-doc         Documentation for the GNOME XML library
5 libxml2-utils       XML utilities
6 python-libxml2      Python bindings for the GNOME XML library
7 python-libxml2-dbg  Python bindings for the GNOME XML library (debug
extension)

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (410, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental'), (111, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.8.15.10
ii  python            2.7.2-10
ii  python-reportbug  6.3.1

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
ii  debconf-utils                            <none>
ii  debsums                                  <none>
ii  dlocate                                  1.02
ii  emacs22-bin-common | emacs23-bin-common  <none>
ii  file                                     5.11-1
ii  gnupg                                    1.4.10-4
ii  postfix | exim4 | mail-transport-agent   <none>
ii  python-gtk2                              2.24.0-3
ii  python-gtkspell                          <none>
ii  python-urwid                             <none>
ii  python-vte                               <none>
ii  xdg-utils                                1.0.2+cvs20100307-2

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.8.15.10
ii  python            2.7.2-10
ii  python-debian     0.1.18+squeeze1
ii  python-debianbts  1.9
ii  python-support    1.0.14

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

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