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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 02:06:08AM +0500, Kamran Riaz Khan wrote:
> On 12/11/2010 06:20 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:22:05PM -0800, Brian Murray wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:05:18AM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 07:35:45AM -0800, Brian Murray wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:14:35AM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> >>> If you can shoot me the bug # I can take a look and test this on it.
> >>>
> >>> If the user did something like convert \n's to \r's, I can probably make
> >>> the split statement handle that type of situation.
> >>>
> >>> If the newline was removed entirely though, that gets to be a pretty
> >>> tough problem, I'm not sure it can be feasibly be addressed other than
> >>> manually fixing up those types of bugs as they're spotted.
> >>
> >> I happened to be editing an apport bug report by clicking the edit
> >> pencil and noticed that a couple of the lines became compressed:
> >>
> >> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned
> >> error exit status 1LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" -
> >> Release i386 (20100816.1)
> >> PackageArchitecture: allSourcePackage: initramfs-tools
> >>
> >> I wonder if this is a bug in apport or Launchpad ...
> > 
> > What was the bug #?  We should take a look at the original description.
> > 
> > I've seen this behavior when editing the PPA descriptions, so I could
> > imagine it to be launchpad.  On the other hand, maybe launchpad isn't
> > inserting proper line endings sometimes for some reason.
> > 
> 
> How about having a dictionary of keys we're *expecting* from apport
> properties. We could scan the properties and keep assigning values to
> keys until new keys are encountered.
> 
> That would work around the line-ending issues but I don't know how
> troublesome will it be to compile a list of known apport keys.

Something along the lines of this would be a good start.

grep "report\['" /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/*.py | awk {'print $2'} | sort | uniq

This also seems to indicate that you probably want the keys to be case
insensitive.

report['UdisksDump']
report['UDisksDump']

-- 
Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master

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