submittodebian crashed with TypeError in _execute_child(): coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found

[Benjamin Kerensa]

What Happens: submittodebian adds Ubuntu changes to control and changelog in patches it forwards upstream

What should happen: submittodebian should respect upstream source pulled with bzr and not try to add Ubuntu changes but instead just changes created by the user working on the source locally.

How to reproduce:
1. bzr branch debianlp:packagename
2. make changes to branch such as fixing a bug
3. submittodebian
4. submittodebian adds changes from the Ubuntu branch control and changelog to the patch it submits

ProblemType: CrashDistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.143
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.22-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Sep 24 00:04:31 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/submittodebian
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/submittodebian
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/submittodebian']SourcePackage: ubuntu-dev-tools
Title: submittodebian crashed with TypeError in _execute_child(): coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-08 (46 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

I'm afraid, I can't figure this out from the traceback. Some more information would be useful:

Can you reproduce this? If so, how?
What editor do you use?

[Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa)]

Basically when I have made changes to a package and use submittodebian to submit the patch it creates a diff and asks if I want to edit it while quite frequently submittodebian has been changing to control file and other files in the package which I didnt change at all so I have to correct the diff and remove the changes that submittodebian adds and when I attempt to do this I would say 1 out of 3 times it crashes.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

I need more specific steps than that. Also, what editor do you use?

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