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james (james-nurealm) wrote : bug reporting form fails to recognize package versions

If this is policy, then, either, the form should simply says so, as "Please do NOT include version extension", or, the form should be smart enough to strip-off the version extension.

For instance, in this "error" message:

 "sysklogd-1.4.1-20ubuntu4" does not exist in Ubuntu. Please choose a different package. If you're unsure, please select "I don't know"

the message itself is inacurate, since, in fact, there certainly _is_ a "sysklogd-1.4.1-20ubuntu4". If version data is not wanted, then the trailing "-1.4.1-20ubuntu4" should be stripped-off automatically.

Further, how are developers suppose to know for which version of a package a user is reporting a bug?!! Suppose the bug has already been fixed - is the developer suppose to intuit this knowlege psychically? That may be an unnecessary challenge for the developer. Maybe you guys _really_ do not care about version - I just thought it seems a little odd.