[Reportbug-maint] Bug#759433: reportbug should refuse to create a report about non Debian packages

[Francois Gouget]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.5.0+nmu1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

To reproduce this:
 * Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list and install libdvdcss2:
   echo deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ testing main non-free >>/etc/apt/sources.list
   apt-get update
   apt-get install libdvdcss2
  
 * Report a bug against libdvdcss2:
   reportbug libdvdcss2

reportbug will happily report the bug despite the fact this is not a Debian package and will only lead to the bug being immediately closed:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759430

Given that reportbug already accesses the Debian servers to grab the list of bugs for the broken package, it could certainly also check whether that package actually is a Debian package. This would avoid wasted time on both sides.

Alternately, given that it correctly identifies the package maintainer, it could print a warning and offer to email the bug report to him directly.


-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="vi"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/fgouget/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "4.7"
mode standard
ui text
email "fgouget at free.fr"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.0.6
ii  python            2.7.8-1
ii  python-reportbug  6.5.0+nmu1

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                 <none>
pn  debconf-utils                              <none>
ii  debsums                                    2.0.52+nmu2
ii  dlocate                                    1.02+nmu3
ii  emacs23-bin-common                         23.4+1-4.1+b1
ii  exim4                                      4.84-1
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.84-1+b1
ii  file                                       1:5.19-1
ii  gnupg                                      1.4.18-2
ii  python-gtk2                                2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-gtkspell                            2.25.3-13
pn  python-urwid                               <none>
ii  python-vte                                 1:0.28.2-5
ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.1

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.0.6
ii  python            2.7.8-1
ii  python-debian     0.1.22
ii  python-debianbts  1.12
ii  python-support    1.0.15

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information