[Reportbug-maint] Bug#684227: reportbug: --source command-line option does not work

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Ian,

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Ian Bruce <ian_bruce at fastmail.net> wrote:
> This does not work:
>
>     $ reportbug --source debian-installer
>     No package specified or we were unable to find it in the apt cache; stopping.

Well, it's written in the error message: either the pkg doesn't exit
or the *apt cache* doesn't know it, and if you want to report a bug
against a source package you'd have to have the corresponding deb-src
like in the sources.list for the apt cache to know it. Even if it's
pretty clear to me, I'll add a mention of it in the manpage.

> What does appear to work is this:
>
>     reportbug src:<package-name>

that's a workaround, given it will generate several warning menus for
non-existing pkg and end up with a "Package: src:<package-name>" in
the report.

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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