Package: liferea Version: 1.10.12-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
When feeds generated by a command fail to produce a working feed, the error messages are both misleading and useless. Pretty much no matter what the problem is, it outputs: > The last update of this subscription failed! > There were errors while parsing this feed! > > Details > > Could not detect the type of this feed! Please check if the source > really points to a resource provided in one of the supported > syndication formats! > > XML Parser Output: > > The URL you want Liferea to subscribe to points to a webpage > and the auto discovery found no feeds on this page. Maybe this > webpage just does not support feed auto discovery.Source points > to HTML document. > > You may want to contact the author/webmaster of the feed about > this! (Strangely, that error even sometimes included saying that it got an HTTP 404 which makes no sense for a local resource.) My understanding is that once Liferea fails to parse an input as a feed, it tries to parse it as a webpage that has a link to a feed and it only reports the error for the second failure, despite the first failure almost always being the relevant one. As a workaround, using the same command as a conversion filter (not caring what the input being "filtered" is) gives more useful errors. In case that led to this bug report, telling me that the command was returning an exit code of 1 (although actually seeing the error message in output would have been more helpful). This is a very minor issue because in addition to the workaround just mentioned, I suspect this is a rarely used feature and except in edge cases like the one I ran into (it turned out the script worked with my bash environment variables but not with my X session's), simply running the command from a terminal would give the desired debugging information. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (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 Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages liferea depends on: ii dbus-x11 1.8.16-1 ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.22.0-1 ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.14.5-1 ii gir1.2-peas-1.0 1.12.1-2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-15 ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+b1 ii libgirepository-1.0-1 1.42.0-2.2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1 ii libindicate5 0.6.92-2 ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.0.2-1 ii libnotify4 0.7.6-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpeas-1.0-0 1.12.1-2 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.48.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.7.4-1 ii libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 2.4.8-1 ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-4 ii libxslt1.1 1.1.28-2+b2 ii liferea-data 1.10.12-1 ii python-gi 3.14.0-1 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages liferea recommends: pn gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 <none> ii gnome-icon-theme 3.12.0-1 ii gnome-keyring 3.14.0-1+b1 ii steadyflow 0.2.0-1.1 Versions of packages liferea suggests: pn network-manager <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
