Bug#431136: xmltv-util: 'tv_validate_file' errors: inconsistent capitalizing

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Wed Feb 13 13:49:46 UTC 2008


reassign 431136 libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-1
thanks

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 12:51:17PM +0100, Chris Butler wrote:
> reassign 431136 libxml-libxml-perl
> thanks
> 
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:20:05PM -0400, A. Costa wrote:
> > I noticed, while attempting to summarize bug #429768:
> > 
> >     % grep "error :" tvvf.log | sed -e 's/^.*error ://' -e 's/line.*$//' | sort | uniq -c
> >       19231  Couldn't find end of Start Tag episode-num 
> >         535  Couldn't find end of Start Tag length 
> >       19766  attributes construct error
> >       19766  error parsing attribute name
> > 
> > ...that leading word "Couldn't" is capitalized, and "attributes" and
> > "error" aren't.  I don't know whether they all should be capitalized or
> > lower case, but a mix of both styles seems wrong.  And is there any
> > consensus on whether an error message should end in a period?
> 
> These error messages are not actually produced by the XMLTV modules. The
> XML file is passed straight to the parser from XML::LibXML module, which
> is where these error messages are produced. Therefore I'm reassigning
> this bug to that package.

... which gets them from libxml2. Reassigning again; I just verified
that these messages are found in the libxml2 sources.

Cheers,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org





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