gdebi-gtk crashed with KeyError in checkDeb()

[Kimme Utsi]

Binary package hint: gdebi

Dowwnloaded an deb archive from ssourceforge.

http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bluescanner/bluescan_1.0.2.deb

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gdebi-gtk
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: gdebi 0.3.13
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gdebi-gtk /tmp/bluescan_1.0.2.deb
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=se_NO.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gdebi-gtk', '/tmp/bluescan_1.0.2.deb']
SourcePackage: gdebi
Title: gdebi-gtk crashed with KeyError in checkDeb()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare video

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

I can confirm this with the latest gdebi in Intrepid.

[Ivan Razumov (iarspider)]

I confirm this.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I fixed this crash. It will now show a error. The Architecture field is a mandatory field, please tell the people doing such debs that they need to include this field in their debian/control file.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gdebi - 0.4.0

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gdebi (0.4.0) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * i18n fixes (LP: #313890), thanks to Gabor Kelemen
  * merged da.po translation update (thanks to Joe Dalton)
  * GDebi/DebPackage.py:
    - better error string for versionized dependencies (LP: #160218)
    - do not crash on packages with no architecture field but show
      a error instead (LP: #261266)
    - fix improper checking for reverse conflicts/strict dependencies
      (LP: #312022)
  * GDebi/GDebi.py:
    - fix filelist display for debs with utf-8 chars (LP: #257597)
    - add refresh action (LP: #156214)
    - tell the user what is being installed
  * data/gdebi.glade:
    - make the status text selectable (LP: #50212)
    - Open is now "Open..." (LP:# 90010)
  * unify the utf8 methods and deal properly with non-utf8 input
    (fixes crash in gdebi-kde, LP: #149893)

  [ Harald Sitter ]
  * Fix gdebi-kde icon (application-x-deb)
  * Change install path of gdebi-kde desktop file to applications/kde4

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:39:52 +0100