Bug#637524: qa.debian.org: UDD: Vcs-* header with uppercase letters not considered

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>]

On 04/09/11 at 09:37 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 04/09/11 at 09:16 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Sat, 03 Sep 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > > Just in case it helps in debugging this issue, the following is a
> > > > list of packages that have a Vcs-[Cc][Vv][Ss] header but aren't
> > > > listed under vcs-type Cvs in UDD:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I took a look at that, but it's not trivial to fix.
> > > A proper fix would normalize the case of all field names, and then use
> > > the normalized version everywhere.
> > 
> > Note that dpkg-source normalizes the field when it generates the .dsc
> > so I guess that you're parsing the unpacked source package ? Maybe you
> > could switch to parse the .dsc instead.
> 
> I'm parsing the Packages and Sources files.
> 
> Ah, apparently, it's a problem in python-debian, which returns
> 'Vcs-Cvs:' instead of 'Vcs-Cvs' as field name if the value starts with
> ':'.
> 
> samosa uses python-debian 0.1.18.

Ah, that's #597249.

So someone needs to prepare a squeeze backport for python-debian 0.1.21.

Lucas