Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools
update-maintainer does not work on some control files. For example, Karmic's exim4 package: $ update-maintainer The old maintainer was: Ubuntu Core Developers <[email protected]> Resetting as: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/update-maintainer", line 43, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/update-maintainer", line 40, in main sys.exit(update_maintainer(options.debian_directory, not options.quiet)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntutools/update_maintainer.py", line 79, in update_maintainer control.save() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntutools/control.py", line 61, in save content = u"\n".join([x.dump() for x in self.paragraphs]) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/debian/deb822.py", line 406, in dump value = self.get_as_string(key) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/debian/deb822.py", line 381, in get_as_string return unicode(self[key]) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/debian/deb822.py", line 178, in __getitem__ value = self.__parsed[key] File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/debian/deb822.py", line 62, in __getitem__ raise KeyError(key) KeyError: '# psmisc just for exiwhat.\n' ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.114 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37 Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Feb 8 11:12:47 2011 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: ubuntu-dev-tools ** Affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of MOTU, which is subscribed to ubuntu-dev-tools in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/715360 Title: update-maintainer needless reads entire control file and can explode -- universe-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs
