If the package name passed to getbuildlog includes a + sign, the program
silently does nothing. For example:

$ getbuildlog bonnie++ last arm64
$

With package names that don't include a + sign it works fine instead:

$ getbuildlog hello last arm64
--2025-11-07 14:50:12--  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=hello&arch=arm64&ver=2.10-5&stamp=1744800322&raw=1
Resolving buildd.debian.org (buildd.debian.org)... 2607:f8f0:614:1::1274:60, 209.87.16.60
Connecting to buildd.debian.org (buildd.debian.org)|2607:f8f0:614:1::1274:60|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘hello_2.10-5_arm64.log’

hello_2.10-5_arm64.log                [   <=>                                                        ] 118.81K   270KB/s    in 0.4s

2025-11-07 14:50:13 (270 KB/s) - ‘hello_2.10-5_arm64.log’ saved [121666]

control: tags -1 + help newcomer
thanks
[...]

thanks for filing this bug report! A patch fixing it would be much
appreciated. There's absolutly no need not to provide one just because
you are no newcomer! ;) Still tagging accordingly cause I suspect the
patch should be fairly simple.

This is basically a duplicate of #651286 and #681779.

The passed arguments are all regexs, and you need to escape special
chars like +.

To improve on this, I asked buildd.d.o to provide an API, see
#1116273.

Chris

merge 1120313 651286
thanks

nice find, thanks! 681779 is definitly related *and* has a patch. Can someone
affected please try it?

yup.

*g* & thanks for that!

Hello Holger and Chris,
but it would not address the escaping issues themselves: 1120313
(package name) and 651286 (version).

In any case the patch does not seem to work:

$ getbuildlog hello last arm64
$ echo $?
1

Without the patch:

$ getbuildlog hello last arm64
--2025-11-11 13:36:25--  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=hello&arch=arm64&ver=2.10-5&stamp=1744800322&raw=1
Resolving buildd.debian.org (buildd.debian.org)... 2607:f8f0:614:1::1274:60, 209.87.16.60
Connecting to buildd.debian.org (buildd.debian.org)|2607:f8f0:614:1::1274:60|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘hello_2.10-5_arm64.log’

hello_2.10-5_arm64.log                [   <=>                                                        ] 118.81K   264KB/s    in 0.4s

2025-11-11 13:36:26 (264 KB/s) - ‘hello_2.10-5_arm64.log’ saved [121666]

Hello,

Bug #1120313 in devscripts reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/commit/cb1a022c8515f4ac0264fc503ab4a88092a265e3
------------------------------------------------------------------------
getbuildlog: URL-encode package name when fetching the log index (Closes: #1120313)

(cherry picked from commit 13117358a4df9e5090a605c39776e4279c9647db)
Signed-off-by: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
------------------------------------------------------------------------

(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1120313

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
devscripts, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1120313@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> (supplier of updated devscripts package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:27:22 +0200
Source: devscripts
Built-For-Profiles: derivative.ubuntu noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 2.26.12
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Devscripts Maintainers <devscripts@packages.debian.org>
Changed-By: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>
Closes: 1120313 1145335
Launchpad-Bugs-Fixed: 1143124 2162372
Changes:
 devscripts (2.26.12) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Yadnyesh Kolte ]
   * getbuildlog:
     - URL-encode package name when fetching the log index (Closes: #1120313)
     - chomp versions before sorting so 'last' picks the newest
 .
   [ Jochen Sprickerhof ]
   * debootsnap: add missing space
   * getbuildlog: support curl as a wget alternative
   * Document curl alternative for getbuildlog
 .
   [ Jeremy Sowden ]
   * uscan: fix use of --download-current-version with "Version-Constraint: same"
 .
   [ Serge Schneider ]
   * debrebuild: join env-var list in mmdebstrap chrooted-customize-hook.
     Thanks to Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> (Closes: #1145335)
 .
   [ Yadd ]
   * uscan: fix metacpan template
 .
   [ Finn Rayk Gartner ]
   * Swap lzip with plzip and provide lzip-decompressor as a fallback
   * Update uscan.pl docs
   * rmadison: Factor out the HTTP client and URL handling
   * rmadison: Use Launchpad API for Ubuntu (LP: #2162372, #1143124)
   * rmadison: Add -g/-G support for LP implementation
 .
   [ Benjamin Drung ]
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4
   * Switch to debhelper 14
   * Wrap long line in bts bash completion
   * Override very-long-line-length-in-source-file for cran test case
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