0.11 does not work as expected

Actually, I believe this is a bug that was introduced between version 0.9 and 0.10. I was still using the official hardy release which necessitated <pastebin>http://rafb.net/paste</pastebin> for rafb.net. Apparently that changed between 0.9 and 0.10.

the problem is that it is trying to parse "configfile", rather than "configtext"

I have included a patch which I have changed the version number to 0.11a to save confusion.

This makes pastebinit almost unusable for me in Jaunty.

Spiro, thank you for the patch. I'll release it shortly.

This bug was fixed in the package pastebinit - 0.11.1-0ubuntu1

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pastebinit (0.11.1-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * new bugfix release (0.11.1)
   * Update translations
   * Fix pastebinit bugs as reported on Launchpad.
   * Disable 1t2.us as it no longer works.
   * Disable all options specifc to 1t2.us (commented out).
   * Fix remainning pastebins.
   * Update manpage. (LP: #157082)
   * Merge fix from Spiro Harvey (LP: #312456)
   * Change pastebinit's default behavior to reading from stdin (Thanks fta)
   * Code cleanup

 -- Stephane Graber <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:05:36 -0400

Stephane, why was it better to release this as 0ubuntu1 instead of pushing it through debian?

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Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> Stephane, why was it better to release this as 0ubuntu1 instead of
> pushing it through debian?

Because we're already in feature freeze and will soon be in complete
freeze, I simply didn't have the time to get it in Debian and ask for a
sync before the freeze.

I'll resync with Debian when Karmic opens.

Stéphane

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I'm using pastebinit on Debian Squeeze and still have this issue:

~$ pastebinit .vimrc
Error parsing configuration file!
Please ensure that your configuration file looks similar to the following:
<pastebinit>
<pastebin>http://paste.debian.net</pastebin>
<author>A pastebinit user</author>
<jabberid><email address hidden></jabberid>
<format>text</format>
</pastebinit>

~$ cat ~/.pastebinit.xml
<pastebinit>
    <pastebin>http://pastebin.ca</pastebin>
    <author>ml</author>
    <jabberid><email address hidden></jabberid>
    <format>text</format>
</pastebinit>

Works fine without .pastebinit.xml.

Hasn't made its way to Sid, which uses pastebinit-0.11-2.

The patch I sent in fixes your problem. The code is trying to parse the xml file as a string, rather than trying to parse the data it extracted from the xml file.

There are two important variables. One is 'configfile' which is the actual xml pathname. The other is 'configtext' which is where the contents of the configfile is read into.

the code does an

f=open(configfile)

then

configtext=f.read()

so here we have configfile which probably contains something like "/home/user/.pastebinit.xml" and configtext which should be something like:
"<pastebinit>
    <pastebin>http://pastebin.ca</pastebin>
    <author>ml</author>
    <jabberid><email address hidden></jabberid>
    <format>text</format>
</pastebinit>"

the broken version of the code then checks to see if a configfile exists, then if it does, it tries to read CONFIGFILE, but it should be trying to read configTEXT.

I think once this is fixed 'upstream' not in the distros, then it will make its way into the distros.

I will email this page to the developers in case they're not aware of it.

oops, looks like it is fixed here, and just noticed stephane's post above.

all code here on lp is correct. mich you can use what I posted to fix the problem for you until it makes its way to debian.

Spiro,

I did what you suggested and I don't get that error. But it is not reading .pastebinit.xml. It is using the default pastebin, username, and file format. I tried with:

<pastebinit>
    <pastebin>http://pastebin.ca</pastebin>
    <author>ml</author>
    <jabberid><email address hidden></jabberid>
    <format>haskell</format>
</pastebinit>

<pastebinit>
    <pastebin>http://paste.debian.net</pastebin>
    <author>ml</author>
    <jabberid><email address hidden></jabberid>
    <format>text</format>
</pastebinit>

Thank You for the quick reply.