Bug#545895: debbugs: should drop '\r' characters from bug report subjects

["Francesco Poli \(t1000\)" <frx@firenze.linux.it>]

Package: debbugs
Version: 2.4.2~exp0
Severity: normal

Hi!

I think I found a bug in the BTS, hence I am reporting it against
the experimental version of debbugs (which I believe is the closest
version to what is used in the BTS, right?).

The following example use of apt-listbugs shows the problem:

  $ apt-listbugs list gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
  Reading package fields... Done
  Reading package status... Done
  Retrieving bug reports... Done
  Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
  serious bugs of gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (-> ) <marked as done in some version>
   (Fixed: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good/0.10.8-4.1).1 unistallable due to .mo 
  serious bugs of gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (-> ) <unfixed>
   #532352 - gstreamer0.10-plugins-good: CVE-2009-1932 integer overflows
  Summary:
   gstreamer0.10-plugins-good(2 bugs)


This is wrongly displayed!
You cannot even see the first bug number!

The problem is that the first bug report includes a '\r' character in
its subject and thus messes up with apt-listbugs description line
building...

I have already worked around this problem in apt-listbugs with
a modification in the BTS SOAP reply parsing code.  This modification
will be included in the next release of apt-listbugs (version 0.1.1)
and is visible on the public git repository:

http://git.debian.org/?p=apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs.git;a=commitdiff;h=0ca67de284c11926221959a0ee0237dd0c3bd84d

With this modification, the above command gives the following
correct output:

  $ apt-listbugs list gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
  Reading package fields... Done
  Reading package status... Done
  Retrieving bug reports... Done
  Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
  serious bugs of gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (-> ) <marked as done in some version>
   #515836 - gstreamer0.10-plugins-good: 0.10.8-4.1 unistallable due to .mo  (Fixed: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good/0.10.8-4.1)
  serious bugs of gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (-> ) <unfixed>
   #532352 - gstreamer0.10-plugins-good: CVE-2009-1932 integer overflows
  Summary:
   gstreamer0.10-plugins-good(2 bugs)


However, the other apt-listbugs co-maintainer (Ryan Niebur) and I
think that this is a bug in the BTS and should be fixed there.

The BTS should drop '\r' characters from bug report subjects, so that
any tool which queries the BTS via its SOAP interface won't get
malformed subjects and won't mess up while trying to display them.

I hope that you agree with this analysis and that this bug is not
to difficult to fix.

Thanks for your time.