Bug#364117: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#364117: klibido: no headers at all after group update (error parsing xover)

[Christian Pernegger]

> Please, could you provide some steps to reproduce easily the bug ?

1. Subscribe to any group
2. Update said group
3. Wait for update / processing to complete
4. The group shows up empty (0 articles, nothing in header view)

I suspect it does not like our internal NewsPlex proxy, the one other
server I could try was fine. FWIW, Thunderbird, Forte Agent, XNews and
GrabIt are fine with it.

Apparently klibido can't deal woth the XOVER data it gets as per the
error message I posted. I dug a bit.

The working server sends:
number TAB subject TAB from TAB date TAB message-id TAB refs TAB bytes
TAB lines TAB xref-full LF

A peek in RFC2980 (which may not be current) shows this to be ok, 8
fields plus custom field for xref.

The non-working server sends:
number TAB subject TAB from TAB date TAB message-id TAB refs TAB bytes
TAB lines TAB TAB TAB LF

Two TABs at the end would be fine, "no custom fields", but not the
third, cause that makes 10 fields and there's a few checks in
src/header.cpp that insist on exactly 9.

Conclusions:

1) NewsPlex is buggy, even if no other NNTP client seems to mind.
2) klibido probably should not have a hardcoded check for 9 fields as
there could in theory be more.

I tried to remove the check to see if it helps but apt-get build-dep
klibido insists on removing gnome-core and -panel, among others.

C.