Bug#708537: debbugs: bugs filed against 'package:arch' go to package 'unknown'

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: retitle -1 handle package:arch and package_version Package: pseudoheaders more intelligently.

On Thu, 16 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 16 mai 13, 10:01:26, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > See #694115 for an occurrence.
> > 
> > This has never been supported at all. This is a bug in reportbug for
> > sending the message this way.
> 
> Ok, but since bugs can be filed also without reportbug you might want to 
> handle this in debbugs anyway (as well?).

I suppose I could special case this and some of the other ways that
people can file invalid packages, but because : is already used in
delimiting source package assignment, it's not quite so simple as
stripping out the architecture.
 

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