[Reportbug-maint] Bug#719050: general: reportbug is not able to file bugs against some packages.

[James McCoy]

Control: reassign -1 python-debianbts 1.11

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:22:51AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:06:41 +0000, atar wrote:
> 
> > Package: general
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > reportbug is not able to file bugs against some packages.
> 
> So we have a possible problem with reportbug;

Actually, it looks like it's either in python-debianbts or a transient
error (network drop?).

The exception is due to a missing 'msgid' key in the response from the
status SOAP request.  It seems odd for the BTS to have a message without
a msgid, which is why I suggest a possible transient error.

> > for example, if you try to file a bug against the 'wget' package, or against the 'reportbug' 
> > package, reportbug emit the following error messages:
> > 
> > Querying Debian BTS for reports on wget (source)...
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2206, in <module>
> >     main()
> >   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1080, in main
> >     return iface.user_interface()
> >   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1702, in user_interface
> >     latest_first=self.options.latest_first)
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/reportbug/ui/text_ui.py", line 517, in handle_bts_query
> >     source=source, http_proxy=http_proxy, archived=archived)
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/reportbug/debbugs.py", line 1263, in get_reports
> >     stats = debianbts.get_status(bugs)
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/debianbts.py", line 170, in get_status
> >     bugs.append(_parse_status(elem))
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/debianbts.py", line 243, in _parse_status
> >     bug.msgid = _uc(tmp['msgid'])
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/SOAPpy/Types.py", line 1283, in __getitem__
> >     return getattr(self, item)
> > AttributeError: structType instance has no attribute 'msgid'
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: 7.1
> >   APT prefers stable-updates
> >   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> > Architecture: i386 (i686)
> > 
> > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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