libsoup2.4 2.46.0-2ubuntu1 may have regressed soup_message_set_request

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

It seems has though something in the gir for libsoup has been broken in the last upload. soup_message_set_request expects the wrong number of parameters, which causes friends' autopkgtests to fail since May 12 (when the new libsoup was uploaded):

https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/job/utopic-adt-friends/ARCH=amd64,label=adt/9/console

ii libsoup2.4-1:amd64 2.46.0-2ubuntu1 amd64 HTTP library implementation in C -- Shared library

I run a minimal test script to exercise the failure; the following snippet fails with a TypeError with 2.46.0-2ubuntu1, but works on 2.44.2-1ubuntu2 (the immediate previous published version, also in Trusty)

"""
from gi.repository import Soup

message = Soup.Message.new('GET', 'http://localhost/')
message.set_request("text/plain", Soup.MemoryUse.COPY, "", 0)
"""

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

The linked branch doesn't fix the bug, but it does add an autopkgtest that catches it (using the small snippet that shows the issue).

[Dan Winship (danw-gnome)]

soup_message_set_request() had incorrect annotations before; you shouldn't have to explicitly specify the length of the data from python. The annotations are fixed now.