On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:05:33PM -0600, david@nwind.net wrote: > Package: apt-xapian-index > Version: 0.18 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > I am unable to get a run of update-apt-xapian-index to complete. It > continually fails with the following error: > > Reading current timestamp failed: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/update-timestamp'. Assuming the index has not been created yet. > Reading Debtags database: done. > Rebuilding Xapian index... 0%/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/descriptions.py:75: DeprecationWarning: Accessed deprecated property Package.rawDescription, please see the Version class for alternatives. > self.indexer.index_text_without_positions(pkg.rawDescription) > /usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/sizes.py:74: DeprecationWarning: Accessed deprecated property Package.installedSize, please see the Version class for alternatives. > instSize = pkg.installedSize > /usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/sizes.py:75: DeprecationWarning: Accessed deprecated property Package.packageSize, please see the Version class for alternatives. > pkgSize = pkg.packageSize > Rebuilding Xapian index... 0% > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 596, in <module> > buildIndex(dbdir, addons, progress) > File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 298, in buildIndex > addon.obj.index(document, pkg) > File "/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/descriptions.py", line 75, in index > self.indexer.index_text_without_positions(pkg.rawDescription) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/package.py", line 95, in __get__ > return property.__get__(self, obj, type) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/package.py", line 510, in rawDescription > return self.candidate.raw_description > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/package.py", line 245, in raw_description > return self._records.LongDesc > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/package.py", line 202, in _records > if self.package._pcache._records.Lookup(self._cand.FileList[0]): > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'FileList' > > I see this on two machines, both running sid, fully updated (and > unrelated other than that - one is at work, the other at home). > > I looked through the docs that come with apt-xapian-index, and didn't > see any step that I might be missing, with regard to configuration or > whatnot. > ii python 2.5.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o > ii python-apt 0.7.9 Python interface to libapt-pkg > ii python-debian 0.1.12 Python modules to work with Debian > ii python-xapian 1.0.10-1 Xapian search engine interface for It looks like the new python-apt introduced some different behaviour, or some bug. Before reassigning the bug to python-apt, I would like to get the opinion of the python-apt maintainers, hence I'm Cc-ing them. I see that the python-apt method that throws an exception (the rawDescription property) also throws a DeprecationWarning. Dear python-apt developer(s), if this exception is a bug, fine, let's see how to fix it. If it is intended behaviour, I would appreciate it if you would proactively inform reverse dependency maintainers before introducing changes that would drag me to stay up overnight because after your change apt-xapian-index is throwing exception at people after every apt-get dist-upgrade, or via cron once a week. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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