apt-listchanges crashed with AttributeError in __init__()

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: apt-listchanges

This is same/similar to bug #115001 although AFAIK apt-listchanges is supposed to do a diff of the new & the old .debs

I have tried all the following

sudo apt-listchanges ipe 6.0pre30-2ubuntu1_i386.deb ipe 6.0pre30-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

as well as

sudo apt-listchanges ipe 6.0pre30-2ubuntu1 ipe 6.0pre30-1ubuntu1

but without any success :(

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 19 17:58:04 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: apt-listchanges 2.79ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/apt-listchanges ipe 6.0pre30-2ubuntu1 6.0pre30-1ubuntu1
ProcCwd: /home/shirish
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_IN
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/apt-listchanges', 'ipe', '6.0pre30-2ubuntu1', '6.0pre30-1ubuntu1']
SourcePackage: apt-listchanges
Title: apt-listchanges crashed with AttributeError in __init__()
Uname: Linux Mugglewille 2.6.24-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:40:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups:

[Anzenketh (anzenketh)]

What happens when you try to run apt-listchanges does it crash?

[Jaromir Obr (jaromir-obr)]

I hit the same bug with Lucid, see duplicate bug #553553.
It's reproducible well.

[Anzenketh (anzenketh)]

What are the exact steps to reproduce the bug?

[Jaromir Obr (jaromir-obr)]

Exact steps to reproduce:
--------------------------
mira@turion:~$ apt-listchanges plymouth
dpkg-deb: failed to read archive `plymouth': No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 229, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 102, in main
    pkg = DebianFiles.Package(deb)
  File "/usr/share/apt-listchanges/DebianFiles.py", line 109, in __init__
    self.binary = pkgdata.Package
AttributeError: ControlStanza instance has no attribute 'Package'

Result: Apport starts: Sorry, the program "apt-listchanges" closed unexpectedly

Used SW:
Ubuntu 10.04, amd64
plymouth: 0.8.2-2ubuntu2
apt-listchange: 2.84

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[kaipanoi (kaipanoi)]

Still a problem on Oneric as of 20110925.

kaipanoi@goaway:~$ apt-listchanges firefox
dpkg-deb: error: failed to read archive `firefox': No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 237, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 102, in main
    pkg = DebianFiles.Package(deb)
  File "/usr/share/apt-listchanges/DebianFiles.py", line 134, in __init__
    self.binary = pkgdata.Package
AttributeError: ControlStanza instance has no attribute 'Package'

kaipanoi@goaway:~$ sudo apt-listchanges gedit
dpkg-deb: error: failed to read archive `gedit': No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 237, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 102, in main
    pkg = DebianFiles.Package(deb)
  File "/usr/share/apt-listchanges/DebianFiles.py", line 134, in __init__
    self.binary = pkgdata.Package
AttributeError: ControlStanza instance has no attribute 'Package'

kaipanoi@goaway:~$ lsb_release -a; uname -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
Linux goaway 3.0.0-11-generic-pae #18-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 14 01:24:09 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[iMac (imac-netstatz)]

Just occurred on current 12.04 Beta