Le sam 23 septembre 2006 14:25, The Wanderer a écrit :
> Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > Le sam 23 septembre 2006 02:50, The Wanderer a écrit :
> >> Package: apt-listchanges
> >> Version: 2.63
> >> Severity: grave
> >> Justification: renders package unusable
> >>
> >>
> >> For some time now, every time I install a package via apt-get,
> >> apt-listchanges does not pop up its display of changelogs.
> >> Instead, I get the following (immediately after "Retrieving bug
> >> reports... Done"):
> >>
> >>
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >> File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 210, in ?
> >> main()
> >> File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 65, in main
> >> status.readfile('/var/lib/dpkg/status')
> >> File "/usr/share/apt-listchanges/DebianControlParser.py", line
> >> 47, in readfile self.stanzas += [DebianControlStanza(x) for x in
> >> open(file, 'r').read().split('\n\n') if x] File
> >> "/usr/share/apt-listchanges/DebianControlParser.py", line 19, in
> >> __init__ field, value = line.split(':', 1)
> >> ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
> >
> > please send me your /var/lib/dpkg/status (not to the bts because of
> > its size).
>
> If you still need that after the below, just let me know and I'll
> pass it along with no further fuss. (I ordinarily hate bug reporters
> who refuse to follow instructions, especially requests for
> information, and I don't like the idea of being one - but in this
> instance I think I may know just enough about what's going on to
> avoid having to send a multi-megabyte file through the mail.)
>
> > it seems you have some odd thing in there, and I've no clue of what
> > is happening.
> >
> > technically, it can only happen if you have a line that does not
> > starts with a space, nor is empty, and has no ':' in it.
> >
> > so either there is a \t starting line or so, and I need to deal
> > with that (but that would be quite suprising) or you have some
> > ill-formatted file. well, with that file I could have a clue.
>
> Yep - that seems to be the cause. I grepped out lines which fit those
> three criteria, and the three lines remaining all begin with tabs -
> they appear in the description of gnome-system-tools 0.26.1-1 (which
> I do not actually have installed, its status is 'deinstall ok
> config-files'). I'm not sure of how to correctly clear that out,
> since editing the file by hand to insert the appropriate spaces does
> not seem remotely "correct"; any suggestions?I suppose I will then make the parser more tolerant and recognize a line that begins with a \t as a valid 'continuation' line even if it's not rfc822 compatible afaict. thanks for the answer ! that will be fixed very soon -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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