[Surfraw-devel] Bug#487430: surfraw: deblogs elvi munges package name

[Micah Anderson]

Package: surfraw
Version: 2.2.1-2
Severity: normal

If I issue the comman:

$ sr deblogs db4.2

the resulting URL that is constructed is:

http://changelogs.debian.net/db4%2E2

this results in an incorrect package name error from changelogs.debian.net:

The package name you provided, db4%2E2, does not seem to exist in the
Sources file (for main).

It seems like the elvi does some escaping on the package name, when it
puts the arguments into $escaped_args:

        w3_browse_url "http://changelogs.debian.net/${escaped_args}"

The majority of the elvi use this $escaped_args mechanism, which I
think comes from w3_parse_args, which I think works its way around
to calling w3_url_escape, both in /usr/bin/sr, specifically the sed
operation on line 151:

s/\./%2E/g; 

If I comment that out, the URL is generated properly. I'm not sure if
this is the right way to go about solving this problem, as the
escaping might serve a more important purpose, but if not, the simple
patch would be attached.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages surfraw depends on:
ii  elinks [www-browser] 0.11.3-8            advanced text-mode WWW browser
ii  epiphany-gecko [www- 2.22.2-3            Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck
ii  galeon [www-browser] 2.0.4-1             GNOME web browser for advanced use
ii  iceape-browser [www- 1.1.9-5             Iceape Navigator (Internet browser
ii  iceweasel [www-brows 3.0~rc2-1           lightweight web browser based on M
ii  konqueror [www-brows 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-2+b1 KDE's advanced file manager, web b
ii  lynx [www-browser]   2.8.6-2+b1          Text-mode WWW Browser
ii  w3m [www-browser]    0.5.2-2             WWW browsable pager with excellent

Versions of packages surfraw recommends:
ii  elinks                        0.11.3-8   advanced text-mode WWW browser
ii  surfraw-extra                 2.2.1-2    extra surfraw elvi with heavy depe
ii  w3m                           0.5.2-2    WWW browsable pager with excellent

-- no debconf information
-------------- next part --------------
--- /usr/bin/sr	2008-06-21 15:09:49.000000000 -0400
+++ /tmp/sr.new	2008-06-21 15:10:03.000000000 -0400
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
 		     s/\$/%24/g;
 		     s/&/%26/g;
 		     s/,/%2C/g;
-		     s/\./%2E/g;
+#		     s/\./%2E/g;
 		     sx/x%2Fx;
 		     s/:/%3A/g;
 		     s/;/%3B/g;