[Reportbug-maint] Bug#597359: reportbug: partial testing removals shouldn't go to debian-release

[Russ Allbery]

Package: reportbug
Version: 4.12.6
Severity: normal

I attempted to file a removal bug against ftp.debian.org for a package
in testing for a particular architecture (ANAIS) and reportbug told me
to mail debian-release instead.  However, debian-release can't handle
partial removals from testing:

| britney doesn't support partial removals from testing (they generally
| wouldn't help anyway as e.g. out-of-date checks are relative to
| unstable, not testing); this is generally achieved by ftp-master
| removing the old binary from unstable and the effect automagically
| propagating to testing.

I think reportbug should recommend filing the bug against unstable
instead, or say that the removal will propagate from unstable if it's
already been removed there.

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="vi"
VISUAL="vi"
DEBEMAIL="rra at debian.org"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/eagle/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "2.10.1"
mode standard
ui text
realname "Russ Allbery"
email "rra at debian.org"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                           0.8.0      Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  python                        2.6.5-13   interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-reportbug              4.12.6     Python modules for interacting wit

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
ii  debconf-utils        1.5.35              debconf utilities
pn  debsums              <none>              (no description available)
ii  dlocate              1.02                fast alternative to dpkg -L and dp
ii  emacs23-bin-common   23.2+1-4            The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii  file                 5.04-5              Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gnupg                1.4.10-4            GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  postfix [mail-transp 2.7.1-1             High-performance mail transport ag
ii  python-gtk2          2.17.0-4            Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
pn  python-gtkspell      <none>              (no description available)
pn  python-urwid         <none>              (no description available)
pn  python-vte           <none>              (no description available)
ii  xdg-utils            1.0.2+cvs20100307-1 desktop integration utilities from

-- no debconf information