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Segfaults when using symlinks

Bug #132391 reported by Sebastian Heinlein
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: bzr-builddeb

As soon as I add a relative symlink to my bzr branch, bd command does not work anymore:

renate@renate-laptop:ubuntu$ bzr bd -w
Running in split mode
Building using working tree
Preparing the build area: ../build-area
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 729, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 691, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 389, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/builddeb/__init__.py", line 265, in run
    build.export(use_existing)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/builddeb/builder.py", line 338, in export
    export(tree,source_dir,None,None)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/export/__init__.py", line 95, in export
    return _exporters[format](tree, dest, root)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/export/__init__.py", line 61, in _loader
    return func(tree, dest, root)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/export/dir_exporter.py", line 47, in dir_exporter
    ie.put_on_disk(dest, dp, tree)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/inventory.py", line 325, in put_on_disk
    self._put_on_disk(fullpath, tree)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/inventory.py", line 807, in _put_on_disk
    os.symlink(self.symlink_target, fullpath)
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found

bzr 0.18.0 on python 2.5.1.final.0 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'bd', '-w']

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 132391] Segfaults when using symlinks

On (14/08/07 08:36), Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: bzr-builddeb
>
> As soon as I add a relative symlink to my bzr branch, bd command does
> not work anymore:

Ah, sorry about this.

It seems to me that if you commit then you will be able to build is that
correct?

If so then I believe the bug is in bzrlib, but it is not an operation that
is exposed by bzr, so they wouldn't have hit it.

I'm away for the weekend, but I will look in to it next week. The
problem is that at first glance I can't really see what is going on in
bzrlib here, but hopefully one of the devs can help me out.

Hopefully the workaround of committing will help you out. I know it's
not ideal, so hopefully we can sort it soon.

Thanks,

James

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote :

bzr-builddeb (0.90ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * upload to gutsy. Verified it still works with bzr 0.18
  * Complete the transition of deb822 into python-debian. LP: #134607

bzr-builddeb (0.90) unstable; urgency=low

  * Support exporting the working tree when it contains symlinks. Thanks
    to John Arbash Meinel for help on fixing it. (LP: #132391)
  * Fix the repacking of .tar.bz2 file to .tar.gz. Thanks Frederic Brin.
  * Complete the transition of deb822 into python-debian.

 -- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:14:30 +0200

Changed in bzr-builddeb:
status: New → Fix Released
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