[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#429299: bzr-builddeb: Dies with Python traceback

[Mark Brown]

Package: bzr-builddeb
Version: 0.16.2
Severity: important

When invoked with no arguments in a clean checkout of revision 36 of

  http://bzr.debian.org/bzr/pkg-nis/nis/debian

bzr-buildpackage dies with a Python traceback, apparently due to trying to
parse one of the historical changelog entries at the foot of the NIS
changelog which are in a non-standard format.

This isn't a great feature of the source package but none of the other
Debian tools mind and there's no need for the program to be parsing these
historical entries.  Obviously the error reporting for the parse error isn't
ideal either.

$ bzr-buildpackage 
Building branch from revision broonie at damiel-20070616201930-73uecb2a2es8rdou
bzr: ERROR: debian_bundle.changelog.ChangelogParseError: Could not parse changelog: * nis-1.20-2 Tue Jul  2 11:28:30 MET DST 1996

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 718, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 679, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 375, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/builddeb/__init__.py", line 223, in run
    (changelog, larstiq) = find_changelog(t, merge)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/builddeb/util.py", line 116, in find_changelog
    changelog = Changelog(contents)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/debian_bundle/changelog.py", line 226, in __init__
    raise ChangelogParseError(line)
ChangelogParseError: Could not parse changelog: * nis-1.20-2 Tue Jul  2 11:28:30 MET DST 1996

bzr 0.17.0candidate1 on python 2.4.4.final.0 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'builddeb']

** please send this report to bazaar at lists.ubuntu.com

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bzr-builddeb depends on:
ii  bzr                           0.17~rc1-1 Bazaar, the next-generation distri
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.4     package building tools for Debian
ii  fakeroot                      1.7.1      Gives a fake root environment
ii  python                        2.4.4-6    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central                0.5.14     register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-deb822                 0.3        Read and manipulate RFC822-like fi
ii  python-debian                 0.1.2      python modules to work with Debian

bzr-builddeb recommends no packages.

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