Package: reportbug
Version: 4.12.1
Severity: wishlist
While looking harder into why my name was not coming through correctly in
bug reports, I discovered that the problem stems from using the deprecated
rfc822 module for parsing email addresses instead of the replacement email
module.
Specifically, the bug is visible here:
Python 2.5.5 (r255:77872, Apr 21 2010, 08:40:04)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import rfc822
>>> rfc822.dump_address_pair( ( 'Paul "TBBle" Hampson',
>>> 'paul.hamp...@pobox.com' ) )
'"Paul "TBBle" Hampson" <paul.hamp...@pobox.com>'
>>> rfc822.parseaddr( rfc822.dump_address_pair( ( 'Paul "TBBle" Hampson',
>>> 'paul.hamp...@pobox.com' ) ) )
('Paul TBBle Hampson', 'paul.hamp...@pobox.com')
>>> import email.utils
>>> email.utils.formataddr( ( 'Paul "TBBle" Hampson', 'paul.hamp...@pobox.com'
>>> ) )
'"Paul \\"TBBle\\" Hampson" <paul.hamp...@pobox.com>'
>>> email.utils.parseaddr( email.utils.formataddr( ( 'Paul "TBBle" Hampson',
>>> 'paul.hamp...@pobox.com' ) ) )
('Paul "TBBle" Hampson', 'paul.hamp...@pobox.com')
The bug in rfc822 is that dump_address_pair is supposed to be the inverse of
parseaddr, but does not
perform the neccessary quoting which parseaddr will unquote.
>From a look at the upstream bugtracker [1], they're not interested in fixing
>this in the rfc822 module,
which was deprecated in Python 2.3.
The only uses of rfc822 in reportbug that I can see are for address parsing,
for which email.utils
appears to provide equivalents (as above, plus rfc822.AddressList looks like it
can be replaced with
email.utils.getaddresses)
This bug can be worked around by pre-quoting the strings in the config file, as
can be seen in my
..reportbugrc below.
[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue494034
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
DEBEMAIL="pa...@microforte.com"
INTERFACE="text"
** /home/tbble/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "4.12.1"
mode standard
ui text
realname 'Paul \\"TBBle\\" Hampson'
email "paul.hamp...@pobox.com"
smtphost "smtp.gmail.com:587"
smtpuser "tbbletb...@gmail.com"
smtptls
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii python 2.5.4-9 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-reportbug 4.12.1 Python modules for interacting wit
reportbug recommends no packages.
Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
ii debconf-utils 1.5.32 debconf utilities
ii debsums 2.0.48 tool for verification of installed
pn dlocate <none> (no description available)
pn emacs22-bin-common | <none> (no description available)
ii file 5.04-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gnupg 1.4.10-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii python-gtk2 2.17.0-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
pn python-gtkspell <none> (no description available)
pn python-urwid <none> (no description available)
pn python-vte <none> (no description available)
ii ssmtp [mail-transpor 2.64-4 extremely simple MTA to get mail o
ii xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-1 desktop integration utilities from
-- no debconf information
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