problems with ubuntu-bug

Brian Murray brian at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 22 16:26:17 UTC 2012


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 05:32:33PM +0200, Carla Sella wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Carla Sella <carla.sella at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:58:47PM +0200, Fabio Marconi wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 14:53 +0200, Carla Sella wrote:
> >>> > Hello,
> >>> > I am testing "Unity GSetting Migration in Unity for Unity & Compiz
> >>> > Testing" and I have reported a bug using ubuntu-bug unity.
> >>> > After having filled in the bug report I clicked on submit bug, but I
> >>> > got a message saying that there was one error, I tried a bit
> >>> > everything but couldn't get the bug submitted.
> >>> > So I opened a bug using launchpad (bug #1040049), now I was trying to
> >>> > submit some data using ubuntu-bug -u 1040049 to help with more info,
> >>> > but when I launch this command in the terminal window I get this
> >>> > error:
> >>> > ERROR: The launchpadlib Python module is not installed. This
> >>> > functionality is not available.
> >>> > I installed python-launchpadlib and also python-launchpadlib-toolkit,
> >>> > but when I use ubuntu-bug -u bug-number I keep on getting the same
> >>> > error.
> >>> > I am doing this on a new install of Quantal Alpha3 on a partition on
> >>> > my PC with all updates applied and after having added the
> >>> > ppa:timo-jyrinki/prerelease for Unity testing.
> >>> > I used to use ubuntu-bug -u without problems.
> >>> > What can I do to submit more information for the bug I just opened ?
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> Hallo Carla
> >>> dunno if the one i've encountered, but b efore to click on submit, click
> >>> extra option and in the tag box search and sustitute with - the tilde
> >>> (~)
> >>
> >> What tag had a ~ in it?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Brian Murray
> >>
> >> --
> >
> > rc-6.2.0-0ubuntu3-test4  was c-6.2.0-0ubuntu3~test4
> 
> Sorry
> 
> rc-6.2.0-0ubuntu3-test5  was c-6.2.0-0ubuntu3~test5

This is a bug in the apport package hook for unity or maybe even in
apport itself.  A ~ is not allowed in tags in Launchpad and either the
package hook or apport should replace a ~ with - as you did.

--
Brian Murray




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