posting blocked

[Andriy Tymchenko]

Binary package hint: gnome-blog

The source package: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-blog/0.9.1-3ubuntu1

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

gnome-blog:
  Installed: 0.9.1-3ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.9.1-3ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.1-3ubuntu1 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Expected: after text typed in "Subject" and "Main text" post fields, pushing on button "Post entry"
Happened: postig does not appear in blog, it actually never goes there. See below.

I took a liberty to run it from command line - below is copy paste from there
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user@hostname:~current_dir$ gnome-blog-poster
Using gconf_prefix /apps/gnome-blog
Iter is for endline
Text is: {
 <p>test text</p>
 }

Using prefix /apps/gnome-blog
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gnomeblog/blog_poster.py", line 140, in _onPostButtonClicked
    successful_post = blog.postEntry(title, html_text, gconf_prefix)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gnomeblog/blog.py", line 25, in postEntry
    client, gconf_prefix)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gnomeblog/livejournal.py", line 33, in postEntry
    cookie = server.LJ.XMLRPC.login(info)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 1147, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 1437, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gnomeblog/proxy.py", line 33, in request
    return Transport.request(self, host, "http://"+host+handler, request_body, verbose)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 1201, in request
    return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 1324, in _parse_response
    p, u = self.getparser()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py", line 1210, in getparser
    return getparser(use_datetime=self._use_datetime)
AttributeError: GnomeProxyTransport instance has no attribute '_use_datetime'
user@hostname:~current_dir$

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Andriy Tymchenko (silpol)]

well, I have to keep all machines with rather LTS (Hardy Heron) installation
on the other hand, Intrepid and Jaunty -- they all have same version of package

I will try to look this myself

[Andriy Tymchenko (silpol)]

me, stupid :)))

simple google-ing put me to this
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488818

solution is in first paragraph :)

please consider to do incremental upgrade, or at least patch with diff from that .deb mentioned above.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

added debian upstream bugwatch, marking as confirmed here, importance medium

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

andriy, thank you for finding the upstream bug report...
does this mean you can now check if your other gnome-blog bug (bug #75034) is still valid?
thank you, and good luck

[Andriy Tymchenko (silpol)]

to me, this is not bug in gnome-blog but in xmlrpclib -- and I'd rather to wait till Ubuntu fixes it (I have few other local packages, not visible to public) which depends on it, so I wanted it fixed. Although it is still not clear to me, whether xmlrpclib package on Ubuntu has this filed as bug -- sorry, Launchpad is slightly too complex for me :)

Once Ubuntu fixes it's own xmlrpclib for python bug (and it is CRITICAL for me -- all machines at work act _only_ via proxy) -- after that I will mark this bug as resolved/verified and go immediately to verify bug #75034.

Sorry, for _this_ complex approach, but I _do_ need official delivery of xmlrpclib from Ubuntu fixed to work with proxy.