Bug#473254: python-debian: deb822 should use lowercase/uppercase like official Release files

[Julian Andres Klode]

Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * Julian Andres Klode [Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:31:20 +0100]:
> 
>> Please change fields like md5sums to MD5Sums, sha1 to SHA1 and sha256 to SHA256,
>> so Release files created by python-debian look more like official Release files.
> 
> Have you tried, when creating those files, giving the names to deb822 in
> the casing you *want*? I think it should work just fine.
> 
> If it doesn't, we'll look into it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
Of course I have.

Look here: release822 = Release(); release822['MD5Sum']   = md5sums

The problem is in __init__:

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        Deb822.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

        for field, fields in self._multivalued_fields.items():
            try:
                contents = self[field]
            except KeyError:
                continue

            if self.isMultiLine(contents):
                self[field] = []
                updater_method = self[field].append
            else:
                self[field] = Deb822Dict()
                updater_method = self[field].update

            for line in filter(None, contents.splitlines()):
                updater_method(Deb822Dict(zip(fields, line.split())))

Here, deb822 automatically registers the lower case values, which were given to
it in the lines:

class Release(_multivalued):
    _multivalued_fields = {
        "md5sum": [ "md5sum", "size", "name" ],
        "sha1": [ "sha1", "size", "name" ],
        "sha256": [ "sha256", "size", "name" ],
    }

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