error when fetching reviews for third-party repositories or locally installed packages with no candidate

Bug #845146 reported by Matthew McGowan
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
software-center (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
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Bug Description

The following error occurred when visiting the details page for Opera web-browser:
2011-09-09 09:01:48,090 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - exit code 1 from helper
2011-09-09 09:01:48,091 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - got error from helper: 'ERROR:__main__:get_reviews
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./data/piston_get_reviews_helper.py", line 73, in <module>
    piston_reviews = try_get_reviews(kwargs)
  File "./data/piston_get_reviews_helper.py", line 23, in try_get_reviews
    piston_reviews = rnrclient.get_reviews(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/validators.py", line 41, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/validators.py", line 37, in wrapper
    pattern))
ValidationException: Argument 'origin' must match pattern '[0-9a-z+-.:/]+$'
'

The visual result in the UI is that the fetching reviews spinner just goes on spinning forever.

Tags: precise
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Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) wrote :

Hi Matt!! And howdy!! We are going through the old bug reports. Do you happen to still see this issue? I expect this should be fixed at this point. Please let us know, and thanks!!

Best to ya,
Gary

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Matthew McGowan (mmcg069) wrote :

Hi Gary, nah it's still broken :D See attachment.

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Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) wrote :

Thanks man!!

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

This is even for true for official packages but where you happen to have a newer version installed than is available from the official repos. I found this out when trying to look at reviews for gjots2 which I maintain in Debian. Basically, quite often you will be locking out Maintainers from having a look at how their packages are reviewed.

tags: added: precise
Michael Vogt (mvo)
summary: - error when fetching reviews for third-party repositories
+ error when fetching reviews for third-party repositories or locally
+ installed packages with no candidate
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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