"Also affects: Distribution" doesn't accept binary package names while "Report a bug" does

Hi Paul,

The packages you usually install with apt are known as "binary packages". One or more "binary packages" are built from a "source package". In this particular case, "alsa-base" is a binary package built from the "alsa-driver" source package.

That said, if you are reporting a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug, you may enter a binary package name and Launchpad will pick the appropriate source package.

Could you provide some more information about what you were trying to do when you ran into this problem?

I think I had clicked the "Also affects ... package/distribution" link on an existing bug report. I had figured out which binary package contained a relevant file (not easily), but not which source package that binary package came from. If all places where a user of launchpad is asked for a package name, it would accept binary package names and translate them, that would be a step in the right direction. But where I was in the UI, it just said "no such package" when in a valid interpretation, there was such a package.

If the user interface of a distribution talks about packages and means binary packages, but launchpad talks about packages and means source packages, launchpad will get more bug reports with wrong or no package associated.