Re: debbugs SOAP interface returns multiple package names separated with comma.

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Junichi Uekawa wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I found it.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=434287
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=434286
> 
> These bug reports return package names in the following format:
> 
> xfonts-75dpi-transcoded,xfonts-75dpi
> 
> which apt-listbugs fails to understand.
> 
> This notation has been allowed in debbugs, but it has never been
> supported too well in any of the interfaces.

It's actually supported in all of them; the underlying implementation
is the following:

=head2 splitpackages

     splitpackages($pkgs)

Split a package string from the status file into a list of package names.

=cut

sub splitpackages {
    my $pkgs = shift;
    return unless defined $pkgs;
    return map lc, split /[ \t?,()]+/, $pkgs;
}

[It's in Debbugs/Status.pm]


Don Armstrong

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