Bug#664728: reportbug: Traceback when trying to report bug on 'non-existant' package for ftp.debian.org

Package: reportbug
Version: 5.1.1ubuntu1
Severity: normal

$ reportbug ftp.debian.org
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Warning: no reportbug configuration found. Proceeding in standard mode.
*** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. ***
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Using 'Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>' as your from address.
Getting status for ftp.debian.org...
Will send report to Debian (per request).
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: python-milter-docs
Checking status database...
This package doesn't appear to exist; continue? [y|N|?]? y
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2159, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1072, in main
return iface.user_interface()
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1652, in user_interface
res = special_prompts(package, bts, ui, fromaddr, self.options.timeout)
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 516, in special_prompts
return pkgprompts(package, bts, ui, fromaddr, timeout)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/reportbug/debianbts.py", line 283, in handle_debian_ftp
}, 'Choose the section: ', default=section, empty_ok=True)
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'section' referenced before assignment


** Environment settings:
DEBEMAIL="scott@kitterman.com"
INTERFACE="text"

Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers oneiric-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oneiric-updates'), (500, 'oneiric-security'), (500, 'oneiric'), (100, 'oneiric-backports')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic-pae (SMP w/4 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 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu13.2 APT's commandline package manager
ii python 2.7.2-7ubuntu2 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-reportbug 5.1.1ubuntu1 Python modules for interacting wit

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn debconf-utils <none> (no description available)
pn debsums <none> (no description available)
pn dlocate <none> (no description available)
pn emacs22-bin-common | <none> (no description available)
ii file 5.04-5ubuntu3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gnupg 1.4.11-3ubuntu1 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii postfix [mail-transpo 2.8.5-2~build1 High-performance mail transport ag
ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
pn python-gtkspell <none> (no description available)
pn python-urwid <none> (no description available)
pn python-vte <none> (no description available)
ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1-2ubuntu6 desktop integration utilities from

/etc/reportbug.conf changed [not included]




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