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

[James Westby]

clone 429299 -1
reassign -1 python-debian
retitle -1 changelog.py: Please provide a way to limit the number of entries parsed.
severity -1 wishlist
retitle 429299 only parse the first changelog entry
block 429299 by -1
thanks

On (16/06/07 21:50), Mark Brown wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks for the report. I will fix it so that only the first entry is
parsed. This will require two uploads though unfortunately. As a
workaround you could move the old entries to debian/changelog.old or
similar.

I will also look at wrapping the error in a better way.

Thanks,

James

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