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bzr-git package

bzr branch crashes with "exceptions.TypeError: expected string or buffer" when cloning a git repository (needs upstream cherrypick/backport)

Bug #556968 reported by Luke Faraone
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Bazaar Git Plugin
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned
bzr-git (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
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Bug Description

After installing bzr-git, running any of these commands causes an error almost instantly.
    bzr branch git://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar.git
    bzr branch git://git.sv.gnu.org/otpasswd.git

...
exceptions.TypeError: expected string or buffer

This is fixed in 0.5.0, debs for that and python-dulwich from Debian will provide a workaround for users. Waiting on a / need to create a cherrypick to fix this for lucid (as its totally naffed in Lucid otherwise). The root cause was a behavioral change in urllib in a minor python release :(

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Luke Faraone (lfaraone) wrote :
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LaserJock (laserjock) wrote :

I ran into this as well. This is bzr and bzr-git from Lucid and it seems to happen when trying to branch from any git:// URL.

Luke Faraone (lfaraone)
Changed in bzr-git (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

This is fixed in 0.5.0 but Jelmer says that that is too much for a SRU so we need to backport just the fix. Thus a confirmed rather than fixed release status in bzr-git.

Changed in bzr-git:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Critical
summary: bzr branch crashes with "exceptions.TypeError: expected string or
- buffer" when cloning a git repository
+ buffer" when cloning a git repository (needs upstream
+ cherrypick/backport)
Robert Collins (lifeless)
description: updated
Mathias Gug (mathiaz)
Changed in bzr-git (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote :

FYI I've created a PPA with a backport of bzr-git 0.5.1-1 (which fixes this bug):

https://launchpad.net/~mathiaz/+archive/bzr-git/

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :

This bug was already fixed upstream, just not in Ubuntu yet.

Changed in bzr-git:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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