#1120313 devscripts: [getbuildlog] silently fails if package name contains +

Package:
devscripts
Source:
devscripts
Description:
scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
Submitter:
Emanuele Rocca
Date:
2025-11-11 12:41:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1120313#5
Date:
2025-11-07 13:52:00 UTC
From:
To:
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]
#1120313#10
Date:
2025-11-07 14:12:16 UTC
From:
To:
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.
#1120313#17
Date:
2025-11-11 04:01:57 UTC
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To:
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
#1120313#22
Date:
2025-11-11 08:22:56 UTC
From:
To:
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!
#1120313#31
Date:
2025-11-11 12:40:14 UTC
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To:
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]