Package: reportbug Version: 6.3.1 Severity: normal This looks like it's related to #599290, but I'm filing a distinct bug since this scenario causes a traceback.
┌──────────────────────────── │$ reportbug ftp.debian.org │ *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** │ Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter). │ Detected character set: UTF-8 │ Please change your locale if this is incorrect. │ │ Using 'James McCoy <james...@debian.org>' as your from address. │ Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release). │ What sort of request is this? (If none of these things mean anything to you, or you are trying to report a bug in an existing package, please press Enter to exit reportbug.) │ │ 1 ANAIS Package removal - Architecture Not Allowed In Source. │ 2 ICE Package removal - Internal Compiler Error. │ 3 NBS Package removal - Not Built [by] Source. │ 4 NPOASR Package removal - Never Part Of A Stable Release. │ 5 NVIU Package removal - Newer Version In Unstable. │ 6 ROM Package removal - Request Of Maintainer. │ 7 ROP Package removal - Request of Porter. │ 8 ROSRM Package removal - Request of Stable Release Manager. │ 9 RoQA Package removal - Requested by the QA team. │ 10 other Not a package removal request, report other problems. │ 11 override Change override request. │ │ Choose the request type: 11 │ Please enter the name of the package: vim-lesstif │ Checking status database... │ This package doesn't appear to exist; continue? [y|N|?]? y │ Traceback (most recent call last): │ File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2199, in <module> │ main() │ File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1077, in main │ return iface.user_interface() │ File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1674, in user_interface │ self.options.http_proxy) │ File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 513, in special_prompts │ return pkgprompts(package, bts, ui, fromaddr, timeout, online, http_proxy) │ File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/reportbug/debbugs.py", line 288, in handle_debian_ftp │ }, 'Choose the section: ', default=section, empty_ok=True) │ UnboundLocalError: local variable 'section' referenced before assignment └──────────────────────────── -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: DEBEMAIL="james...@debian.org" DEBFULLNAME="James McCoy" INTERFACE="text" ** /home/jamessan/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "6.3.1" mode advanced ui text -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 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 0.8.15.9 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 <none> ii emacs23-bin-common 23.3+1-5 ii file 5.09-2 ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 2.8.7-1 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+git20111210-5 Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.8.15.9 ii python 2.7.2-10 ii python-debian 0.1.21 ii python-debianbts 1.10 ii python-support 1.0.14 python-reportbug suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org