[Reportbug-maint] Bug#849564: python3-reportbug: reportbug fails with AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'utils'

[Francesco Poli]

Control: severity -1 important


On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 04:56:37 -0500 Matthew Gabeler-Lee wrote:

[...]
> This bug seems like it maybe should be higher severity than 'normal'.

Agreed. I am setting the severity to "important", since this bug seems
to have a major effect on the usability of reportbug, even though it
does not make it completely unusable

> On
> systems that have 7.1.1 installed, I can't seem to run reportbug no matter
> what I do.

In my case, reportbug reads my e-mail address from the DEBEMAIL
environment variable, while my name is read from the DEBFULLNAME
environment variable.

Unfortunately:

  $ echo $DEBFULLNAME
  Francesco Poli (wintermute)

which also includes some characters which are not letters, digits, or
underscores [\w], nor whitespace characters [\s]: in my case, the
non-matching characters are the parentheses.
In the case of Matthew, it's probably the hyphen between the double
surname.
In the case of Bernhard, I guess it's the dot after the first letter of
the middle name.

The consequence is that the regexp at line 313 of
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py
does not match and the subsequent return statement (line 314) is not
executed.
The Python interpreter attempts to execute line 316, where the email
string has no attribute 'utils'.

I am under the impression that the email string variable is masking the
email module, or something like that?!?

Anyway, if I set:

  $ DEBFULLNAME="Francesco Poli"

reportbug is able to run.


I hope this bug may be fixed soon.
Thanks for your time!
Bye.

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