Bug#846141: hint-tester always converts its input to lowercase, meaning you can't use it on package versions with uppercase characters

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

Iain Lane:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: britney
> 
> Ahoy,
> 
> I noticed when using hint-tester on Ubuntu.
> 
>   britney> easy […] dreamchess/0.2.1-RC2-2build1 […]
>   Version mismatch, dreamchess 0.2.1-rc2-2build1 != 0.2.1-RC2-2build1
> 
> The latter is the right version, but my input has been downcased by
> britney.
> 
> Apparently[0] uppercase characters are legal in package versions (and
> even if they weren't this would be a strange place to surface the
> violation). Is there a reason for calling lower() here? Attached a patch
> which just removes that - and makes the hint work for me.
> 
> Cheers,
> 

Hi,

Thanks for catching this. :)

I will include it in one of the coming patch bundles for Britney.

Thanks,
~Niels