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Jelmer Vernooij:
> Package: python3-debian
> Version: 0.1.39
> Severity: normal
>
> The new deb822 repro interface paragraph iterator yields objects of type
> debian._util._CaseInsensitiveString rather than strings.
>
> This breaks e.g. checks that verify that the name of the field appears in a
> list of strings when there are non-lowercase field names:
>
>>>> import debian._util
>>>> x = debian._util._CaseInsensitiveString('Oo')
>>>> x in set(['Oo'])
> False
>
> [...]
Hi Jelmer,
This is correct and unfortunately I do not have a good solution for it.
It might be possible to return a "regular str" in this case, but the
behaviour would still fall a part for paragraphs with duplicate keys
where the keys are not even strings[1] (admittedly, they are a rarity
and you can filter those out by having the parse reject them).
Maybe we should reject paragraphs with duplicate keys by default to
side-step that issue? What is your take on this?
Thanks,
~Niels
[1]: They cannot be regular strings as that would fail the:
"""
for k in paragraphs.keys():
v = paragraphs[k]
"""
(anti-)pattern.
