Control: tags -1 + patch
Dear Marcus & python-debian co-maintainers,
> > If other tools/libraries are more tolerant, including python-apt,
> > would it make sense for python-debian to be more tolerant when using
> > the in-built parser? In that case, the two parser implementations
> > would be mo
Hi Marcus,
> So in my case, the in-built parser is being used and it is stricter
> than python-apt's parser?
That is correct.
> > BTW if you are read()ing so that you can deal with the compressed
> > Pacakges.gz, TagFile can handle on-the-fly decompression.
> >
> > In [1]: from debian.deb822 im
> > Passing the contents does the correct thing in all other cases, so not
> > sure why it would be having an issue with this?
>
> Ahah!
>
> TagFile only accepts filehandles, not static data:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/python-apt/blob/master/python/tag.cc#L750
>
> In deb822.py there is a
Hi Marcus,
> I've narrowed down where the issue occurs. It happens when passing the
> contents rather than the file handle to iter_paragraphs:
>
> ~# ipython3
> Python 3.5.3 (default, Jan 19 2017, 14:11:04)
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>
> IPython 5.1.0 -- An
Control: retitle -1 Incorrectly parsing whitespace in Deb822.iter_paragraphs
On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 23:42, Marcus Furlong wrote:
>
> > > I have come across a case where whitespace is added in
> > > Packages{.gz,.bz2} and I am not sure how it should be parsed.
> > [...]
> > > Should this whitespace
> > I have come across a case where whitespace is added in
> > Packages{.gz,.bz2} and I am not sure how it should be parsed.
> [...]
> > Should this whitespace be parsed as a paragraph delimiter?
>
> For a Packages file, each paragraph is defined as a set of DEBIAN/control
> paragraphs; the Descrip
Hi Marcus,
Thanks for this interesting report.
> I have come across a case where whitespace is added in
> Packages{.gz,.bz2} and I am not sure how it should be parsed.
[...]
> Should this whitespace be parsed as a paragraph delimiter?
For a Packages file, each paragraph is defined as a set of DE
Package: python-debian
Version: 0.1.33
I have come across a case where whitespace is added in
Packages{.gz,.bz2} and I am not sure how it should be parsed.
Currently, the whitespace is being treated as a paragraph delimiter,
in python-debian, but not by apt-get, etc.
See, for example, line 3780 o
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