supybot parses regular expressions crudely and incorrectly for String plugin's re command

[Ralph Corderoy]

Binary package hint: supybot

Ubuntu 8.04, supybot 0.83.3-1.

supybot's `re' command in the String plugin doesn't handle backslashes
well. Given `re s/\//x/ a/bc' it correctly seperates the two parts `\/'
and `x', returning `axbc', but it seems to do this by splitting the
string on the `/' separator when it's not preceeded by a backslash.
This logic is flawed:

    re s/\//x/ a/bc
    axbc
    re s/\\/x/ a/bc
    Error: 's/\\\\/x/ a/bc' is not a valid regular expression.

Here, the backslash preceeding the separator is part of the escape
started with the first backslash, so the second `/' isn't escaped and
shouldn't be treated as such. Also, the error message seems to
over-escape the backslashes.

[James McCoy (jamessan)]

This is now fixed upstream and will be included in 0.83.4. Thanks for the bug report.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package supybot - 0.83.4.1.ds-1

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supybot (0.83.4.1.ds-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
    - Requesting help for Factoids commands no longer errors out. (LP: #235439)
    - Regular expressions with multiple backslashes are properly parsed.
      (LP: #235500)
  * debian/control
    - Add Vcs-* fields.
    - Bump standards version to 3.8.1.0 - no changes needed.
    - Add python-feedparser to Recommends. (Closes: #490615)
    - Add python-simplejson | python (>= 2.6) to Recommends.
    - Add python-dateutil, python-dictclient to Suggests.
    - Add version to debhelper Build-Depends.
  * debian/rules:
    - Use stamp files as pre-requisites instead of the related phony targets.
    - Call dh_prep instead of dh_clean -k.
  * debian/watch: Call new debian/repack script to remove embedded copies of
    third-party code from new upstream tarballs.
  * debian/docs: Include FAQ and CONFIGURATION docs in the package.
  * Bump compat level to 7.

 -- <email address hidden> (Andres E. Rodriguez Lazo) Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:50:57 +0100