Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-manager
With edgy, I always experienced the problem that update-manager wasn't
able to download the changelogs of the packages. Today I finally got
myself to look at the problem. I looked at the console output and found
this:
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line
162, in get_changelog
l = string.split(srcver,":")
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'srcver' referenced before assignment
I looked at the code and found the mistake in a code block that was
supposed to get the source version of the package and compare it to the
binary version. All code paths should actually assign some value to
srcver because it is used afterwards, but one was forgotten: on line
142, there is:
if srcrec:
srcver = ...
The problem: there is no "else" clause. The code should become
if srcrec:
srcver = ...
else:
srcver = binver # the fallback used in the rest of the code
After this change, the changelog downloading worked without any problems
on my machine. Could this be patched upstream?
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
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Error in get_changelog
https://launchpad.net/bugs/59940
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