Is there any alternative to apt-listbugs for Ubuntu?

Question

On debian apt-listbugs is used to report bugs, it can be used also to prevent a package from being installed by setting a pin priority in apt-listbugs preferences.

Is there any alternative to apt-listbugs for Ubuntu 20.04?

Answer 1

On my hirsute I downloaded the .deb for Debian 11 :

apt-listbugs_0.1.35_all.deb

Install it the usual way you prefer (dpkg, gdebi, Discover...). I used gdebi to pull three other dependencies. It was installed without errors.

When used with "apt" as a method, it is buggy (whichever level you set, it displays "E: APT_HOOK_INFO_FD is undefined.". There seems to be no workaround for that unless you are seriously into pinning, downgrading, and such. However, when used with the "list" method, it works brilliantly:

Example of a valid one:

sudo apt-listbugs -s all list man
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done

Example of a buggy one:

sudo apt-listbugs -s all list espeak
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
normal bugs of espeak (→ ) <Outstanding>
 b1 - #415892 - espeak: produces incorrect length in wav headers
 b2 - #591717 - espeak: Library unble to open soundcard.
important bugs of espeak (→ ) <Forwarded>
 b3 - #822278 - espeak: not speaking german "umlaute" encoded
normal bugs of espeak (→ ) <Forwarded>
 b4 - #830731 - espeak: bad pronunciation of "unary"
minor bugs of espeak (→ ) <Forwarded>
 b5 - #946029 - espeak: inform that --stdin flag reads multi-line text
Summary:
 espeak(5 bugs)

Warmly recommended for Ubuntu 20.04 since I see no issues except the inability to connect to Apt. I am about to pull every single package on my system through it with various levels of severity (and other parameters changed) and will post an edit here if it hicks up on something.

Here is the --help of it:

Usage: apt-listbugs [options] <command> [arguments]
Options:
 -s <severities>  : Filter bugs by severities you want to see
                    (or "all" for all)
                    [-D].
 -T <tags>        : Filter bugs by tags you want to see.
 -S <states>      : Filter bugs by pending-state categories you want to see
                    [pending,forwarded,pending-fixed,fixed,done].
 -B <bug#>        : Filter bugs by number, showing only the specified bugs.
 -D               : Show downgraded packages, too.
 -H <hostname>    : Hostname of Debian Bug Tracking System [bugs.debian.org].
 -p <port>        : Port number of the server [80].
 -P <priority>    : Pin-Priority value [30000].
 -E <title>       : Title of RSS output.
 -q               : Don't display progress bar.
 -C <apt.conf>    : Additional apt.conf file to use.
 -F               : Automatically pin all buggy packages.
 -N               : Never automatically pin packages.
 -y               : Assume yes for all questions.
 -n               : Assume no for all questions.
 -a               : Assume the default reply for all questions.
 -d               : Debug.
 -h               : Display this help and exit.
 -v               : Show version number and exit.
Commands:
 apt              : Apt mode.
 list <pkg>..     : List bug reports of the specified packages.
 rss <pkg>..      : List bug reports of the specified packages in RSS.