[Reportbug-maint] Bug#680465: reportbug: crash if tilde ("~") is used in output file path -- data lost!
Fritz Wuehler
fritz at spamexpire-201207.rodent.frell.theremailer.net
Fri Jul 6 03:44:09 UTC 2012
Package: reportbug
Version: 4.12.6
Severity: important
When invoking bugreport --output=~/myreport.txt, everything is normal
long enough for the user to spend time writing a report, then in the
end it crashes, losing all data that was composed. This is serious.
Someone takes the time to fill out a report, and all their work is
lost.
At the end, the faulty output looks like this:
Report will be saved as ~/myreport.txt
Submit this report on libgdata7 (e to edit) [Y|n|a|c|e|i|l|m|p|q|d|t|s|?]?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2098, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1045, in main
return iface.user_interface()
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2090, in user_interface
self.options.draftpath)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/reportbug/submit.py", line 331, in send_report
fh.write(message.as_string())
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'as_string'
The workaround is to use $HOME instead of "~".
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="emacs"
INTERFACE="text"
** /home/jg/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "4.12.6"
mode novice
ui text
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-reportbug 4.12.6 Python modules for interacting wit
reportbug recommends no packages.
Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn debconf-utils <none> (no description available)
pn debsums <none> (no description available)
pn dlocate <none> (no description available)
ii emacs23-bin-common 23.2+1-7 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii file 5.04-5+squeeze2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii postfix [mail-transp 2.7.1-1+squeeze1 High-performance mail transport ag
ii python-gtk2 2.17.0-4 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
pn python-gtkspell <none> (no description available)
pn python-urwid <none> (no description available)
ii python-vte 1:0.24.3-3 Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-2 desktop integration utilities from
-- no debconf information
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