[Reportbug-maint] Bug#524895: closed by Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> (Re: Bug#524895: [reportbug] After finding, checking named package, crashes out)

Tue Apr 21 13:00:08 UTC 2009

On Monday 20 April 2009 23:48:06 Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Bug#524895 closed by Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> (Re: Bug#524895:
> [reportbug] After finding, checking named package,  crashes out) From:
> Debian Bug Tracking System <owner at bugs.debian.org>
>  To: David Baron <d_baron at 012.net.il>
>
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the reportbug package:
>
> #524895: [reportbug] After finding, checking named package, crashes out
>
> It has been closed by Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>.
>
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
> better one in a separate message then please contact Sandro Tosi
> <morph at debian.org> by replying to this email.
>
>
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> 524895: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524895
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>   Re: Bug#524895: [reportbug] After finding, checking named package,
> crashes out From: Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>
>  To: David Baron <d_baron at 012.net.il>, 524895-done at bugs.debian.org,
> control at bugs.debian.org
>
> severity 524895 normal,
> thanks
>
> Hello David,
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 18:00, David Baron <d_baron at 012.net.il> wrote:
> > Package: reportbug
> > Version: 4.1
> > Severity: grave
>
> Please... select more carefully the severity. this is not grave,
> it's a problem only on your machine, that doesn't impact anyone else.
> The correct severity is normal, at max important, nothing more.
Obvously, if it is only on my machine, but I did not know that.

> Infact, here on my machine I got:
>
> $ reportbug reportbug
> *** Welcome to reportbug.  Use ? for help at prompts. ***
> Detected character set: UTF-8
> Please change your locale if this is incorrect.
>
> Using 'Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>' as your from address.
> Getting status for reportbug...
> Verifying package integrity...
This is where I lose it.

> There may be a problem with your installation of reportbug;
> the following files appear to be missing or changed:
> debsums: can't open reportbug file /usr/share/doc/reportbug/TODO (No
> such file or directory)
> Do you still want to file a report [y|N|q|?]? y
> Checking for newer versions at packages.debian.org,
> incoming.debian.org and http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html
> Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
> Querying Debian BTS for reports on reportbug (source)...
> 246 bug reports found:
>
> Outstanding bugs -- Uncategorized; Grave functionality bugs (1 bug)
>     1) #524895  [reportbug] After finding, checking named package, crashes
> out ...
>
> If you cared to read the backtrace, here is the important part:
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 604, in _safe_read
> >    raise IncompleteRead(s)
>
> that means a read from a remote website somehow got interrupted. The
>
> retrieved webpage so far was:
> > httplib.IncompleteRead: ['\n\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML
>
> 8<
>
> > <br>3.31+etch1: all\n    \n    \n    </li>\n  \n    <li
> > class="etch-m68k"']
>
> that seems the packages.debian.org page.
>
> I'm closing this bug, since it's not a bug at all. If you need further
> clarification, feel free to reply to this bug, but *do not* reopen it.
>
OK. The question is where the problem is, since it is certainly consistent. I 
get complete listings in reportbug-ng.

Maybe related, maybe not, but see my "wishlist" item for apt-list 524768. This 
also relates to a fairly consistent problem hitting the same servers. (This 
had been filed as a regular bug a number of times. I did not reopen it.)