[Reportbug-maint] Bug#644103: reportbug: reporting of "newer release(s) are available" is wrong

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.2.1
Severity: normal

It appears that reportbug reports the unstable version as the stable
version:

0 abc at tut:~$ reportbug e2fsprogs
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
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Getting status for e2fsprogs...
Checking for newer versions at packages.debian.org...

Your version (1.42~WIP-2011-07-02-1) of e2fsprogs appears to be out of date.
The following newer release(s) are available in the Debian archive:
  stable: 1.42~WIP-2011-09-25-1
  unstable: 1.42~WIP-2011-09-25-1
Do you still want to file a report [y|N|q|?]? q
0 abc at tut:/tmp$ rmadison e2fsprogs
 e2fsprogs | 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 | etch-security | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
 e2fsprogs | 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 | etch          | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
 e2fsprogs | 1.41.3-1                             | lenny         | source, alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
 e2fsprogs | 1.41.12-4stable1                     | squeeze       | source, amd64, armel, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
 e2fsprogs | 1.42~WIP-2011-07-02-1                | wheezy        | source, amd64, armel, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
 e2fsprogs | 1.42~WIP-2011-07-02-1                | sid           | source, hurd-i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, sparc
 e2fsprogs | 1.42~WIP-2011-09-25-1                | sid           | source, amd64, armel, i386, powerpc, s390
0 abc at tut:/tmp$ 


I'm not sure why reportbug thinks that the stable version of e2fsprogs
is 1.42~WIP-2011-09-25-1, when squeeze has 1.41.12-4stable1.

		       --dkg

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

** /home/abc/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "5.1.1"
mode standard
ui text
realname "Daniel Kahn Gillmor"
email "dkg at fifthhorseman.net"
no-cc
header "X-Debbugs-CC: dkg at fifthhorseman.net"
smtphost reportbug.debian.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-powerpc64 (SMP w/2 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               0.8.15.8
ii  python            2.6.7-3 
ii  python-reportbug  6.2.1   

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
ii  debconf-utils                              <none>     
ii  debsums                                    <none>     
ii  dlocate                                    1.02       
ii  emacs23-bin-common                         23.3+1-1.1 
ii  exim4                                      4.76-3     
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.76-3     
ii  file                                       5.08-1     
ii  gnupg                                      1.4.11-3   
ii  python-gtk2                                2.24.0-2   
ii  python-gtkspell                            <none>     
ii  python-urwid                               <none>     
ii  python-vte                                 <none>     
ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.0~rc1-2

-- no debconf information