Package: reportbug Severity: normal Control: submitter -1 Ian A Mason <i...@csl.sri.com>
Ian messaged owner@ with the following issue: On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, Ian A Mason wrote: > So I am trying to submit an ITP against WNPP in order to start the > mentoring process. I have tried to use reportbug on both a jessie > machine and an ubuntu 14.04 machine. In both case reportbug throws a > python exception. [...] > reportbug -B debian > Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or > type > 'other' to report a more general problem. > > wnpp > Are you sure you want to file a WNPP report? [y|N|q|?]? y > *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** > Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the > submitter). > Detected character set: UTF-8 > Please change your locale if this is incorrect. > > Using '"Ian A. Mason" <i...@csl.sri.com>' as your from address. > 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 ITP This is an `Intent To Package'. Please submit a package description > along with copyright and URL in such a report. > 2 O The package has been `Orphaned'. It needs a new maintainer as soon as > possible. > 3 RFA This is a `Request for Adoption'. Due to lack of time, resources, > interest or something similar, the current maintainer is asking for > someone else to maintain this package. They will maintain it in the > meantime, but perhaps not in the best possible way. In short: the > package needs a new maintainer. > 4 RFH This is a `Request For Help'. The current maintainer wants to > continue > to maintain this package, but they needs some help to do this, > because > their time is limited or the package is quite big and needs several > maintainers. > 5 RFP This is a `Request For Package'. You have found an interesting piece > of > software and would like someone else to maintain it for Debian. > Please > submit a package description along with copyright and URL in such a > report. > > Choose the request type: 1 > Please enter the proposed package name: yices2 > Checking status database... > Please briefly describe this package; this should be an appropriate short > description for the eventual package: > > Yices2 is SRI International's SMT Solver. > Your report will be carbon-copied to debian-devel, per Debian policy. > Querying Debian BTS for reports on wnpp (source)... > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2217, in <module> > main() > File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1079, in main > return iface.user_interface() > File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1709, 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 1276, in > get_reports > stats = debianbts.get_status(bugs) > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/debianbts.py", line 184, in get_status > bugs.extend(parse(reply)) > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/debianbts.py", line 176, in parse > return [_parse_status(elem) for elem in reply[0]] > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/debianbts.py", line 265, in > _parse_status > bug.owner = _uc(tmp['owner']) > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/debianbts.py", line 294, in _uc > return unicode(string, 'utf-8', 'replace') > TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, int found Thanks for checking this out; let me know if there's something I can do to clarify. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you. If you don't bet, you can't win. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p240