Debian Bug report logs - #398205
alexandria: Pulling information from internet sources does not work at all

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: alexandria: Pulling information from internet sources does not work at all

Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:27:19 +0100

Package: alexandria
Version: 0.5.1-3
Severity: serious

alexandria in sarge seems to be non-usable. - I have done the usual
steps a beginner would do:
1. start the program
2. klick [Add Book]
3. Type in ISIN 3-446-15497-3
4. klick on [+Add]
5. Get error message: "No results were found. Make sure your search
criterion is spelled correctly. and try again.

I already *have* followed the advice in bug #328496 and have added the
new developer token. And amazon seems to accept it - from strace
output:

5548  write(21, "GET /onca/xml3?t=calibanorg-20&AsinSearch=3446154973&f=xml&type=heavy&dev-t=142TF8CHT48WYPPS6J82&locale=de HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept: */*\r\nUser-Agent: Ruby/Amazon 0.9.0\r\nHost: xml.amazon.com\r\n\r\n", 185) = 185
[...]
5548  write(21, "GET /onca/xml3?t=calibanorg-20&AsinSearch=3446154973&f=xml&type=heavy&dev-t=142TF8CHT48WYPPS6J82&locale=de HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept: */*\r\nUser-Agent: Ruby/Amazon 0.9.0\r\nHost: xml.amazon.com\r\n\r\n", 185) = 185

And indeed checking
http.//xml.amazon.com/onca/xml3?t=calibanorg-20&AsinSearch=3446154973&f=xml&type
=heavy&dev-t=142TF8CHT48WYPPS6J82&locale=de
in e.g. mozilla shows that amazon would provide the correct data:

| <pRODUCTinfo xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://xml.amazon.com/schemas3/dev-heavy.xsd">
| -
|         <Request>
| -
|         <Args>
| <Arg value="de" name="locale"/>
| <Arg value="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20060926 Debian/1.7.8-1sarge7.3.1" name="UserAgent"/>
| <Arg value="0W9BYZ03S8XCJNCHJEY1" name="RequestID"/>
| <Arg value="142TF8CHT48WYPPS6J82" name="dev-t"/>
| <Arg value="3446154973" name="AsinSearch"/>
| <Arg value="heavy" name="type"/>
| <Arg value="xml" name="f"/>
| <Arg value="calibanorg-20" name="t"/>
| </Args>
| </Request>
| -
|         <Details url="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3446154973%3ftag=calibanorg-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26dev-t=142TF8CHT48WYPPS6J82">
| <Asin>3446154973</Asin>
| -
|         <ProductName>
| Programmieren in C. ANSI C (2. A.). Mit dem C-Reference Manual.
| </ProductName>

I assume the alexandria 0.6.1-1 in upcoming etch is functional
currently, please doublecheck and make a versioned close if this is
the case.

cu and- tellico doesn't work, too. ;-) -reas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages alexandria depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.8.1-6       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libamazon-ruby             0.9.0-1       a Ruby library for programmatic ac
ii  libgconf2-ruby             0.12.0-2      GConf 2 bindings for the Ruby lang
ii  libgettext-ruby1.8         0.8.0-1       Gettext for ruby1.8
ii  libglade2-ruby             0.12.0-2      Libglade 2 bindings for the Ruby l
ii  libgnome2-ruby             0.12.0-2      GNOME 2 bindings for the Ruby lang
ii  libruby1.8 [libyaml-ruby1. 1.8.2-7sarge4 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  ruby1.8                    1.8.2-7sarge4 Interpreter of object-oriented scr

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Message #10 received at 398205-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>

To: 398205-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: alexandria: Pulling information from internet sources does not work at all

Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:17:32 +0100

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Version: 0.6.1-1

Hi,

> alexandria in sarge seems to be non-usable. - I have done the usual
> steps a beginner would do:

[...]

> I assume the alexandria 0.6.1-1 in upcoming etch is functional
> currently, please doublecheck and make a versioned close if this is
> the case.

I double checked, works fine, and "djpig" also confirms it ("Probably
sarge only, seems to work fine in etch"). I think it's safe to close
with the etch version.

I'm not sure if sarge is fixable, that's up to the maintainer and the
stable release team to find out. Thanks for reporting.


Thijs

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Message #15 received at 398205@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>

To: 398205@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#398205 closed by Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> (Re: alexandria: Pulling information from internet sources does not work at all)

Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:18:45 +0100

On 2006-11-13 Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org> wrote:
[...]
> It has been closed by Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>.
[...]
> From: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
> To: 398205-done@bugs.debian.org

> Version: 0.6.1-1
[...]
> > I assume the alexandria 0.6.1-1 in upcoming etch is functional
> > currently, please doublecheck and make a versioned close if this is
> > the case.

> I double checked, works fine, and "djpig" also confirms it ("Probably
> sarge only, seems to work fine in etch"). I think it's safe to close
> with the etch version.

> I'm not sure if sarge is fixable, that's up to the maintainer and the
> stable release team to find out. Thanks for reporting.

Splendid.

Hopefully sarge will be released soonish anyway and the problem will
go away for me.
thanks, cu andreas
-- 
The 'Galactic Cleaning' policy undertaken by Emperor Zhark is a personal
vision of the emperor's, and its inclusion in this work does not constitute
tacit approval by the author or the publisher for any such projects,
howsoever undertaken.                                (c) Jasper Ffforde

Message #20 received at 398205@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>

To: 398205@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#398205 closed by Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> (Re: alexandria: Pulling information from internet sources does not work at all)

Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 20:00:03 +0100

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found 398205 0.6.1-1
thanks
On 2006-11-13 Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> On 2006-11-13 Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org> wrote:
[...]
> > From: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
> > To: 398205-done@bugs.debian.org

> > Version: 0.6.1-1
> [...]
> > > I assume the alexandria 0.6.1-1 in upcoming etch is functional
> > > currently, please doublecheck and make a versioned close if this is
> > > the case.

> > I double checked, works fine, and "djpig" also confirms it ("Probably
> > sarge only, seems to work fine in etch").
[...]

Well. Not for me. I have upgraded to etch today and tough luck, it
does not work.

I am attaching my /home/ametzler/.gconf/apps/alexandria/%gconf.xml. I
have done searches for 3446154973 (German tranlation of
Kernighan/Ritchie's Programming in C) and 0201896834 (Knuth's TAOCP I)
in vain.

I have straced the first search and it realy should have succeeded,
the first two search URLs

http://www.amadeusbuch.at/shop/bde_bu_hg_startseite/schnellsuche/buch/?fqbi=3446154973

http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml3?t=calibanorg-20&AsinSearch=3446154973&f=xml&type=heavy&dev-t=142TF8CHT48WYPPS6J82&locale=de

yield results.

The strace is (temporary) available on
http://www.bebt.de/debian/misc/straceout.bz2 (122KB).

cu andreas
PS: On a sidenote, I think this is rather fishy:
ametzler@argenau:/tmp$ ls -ld /tmp/amazon/
drwxrwxr-x 2 ametzler ametzler 4096 2006-12-08 19:32 /tmp/amazon/

There should not be a directory left in /tmp after running, even less
one with a predictable name.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-k7
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages alexandria depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.16.0-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libamazon-ruby                0.9.0-2    a Ruby library for programmatic ac
ii  libgconf2-ruby                0.15.0-1.1 GConf 2 bindings for the Ruby lang
ii  libgettext-ruby1.8            1.7.0-1    Gettext for ruby1.8
ii  libglade2-ruby                0.15.0-1.1 Libglade 2 bindings for the Ruby l
ii  libgnome2-ruby                0.15.0-1.1 GNOME 2 bindings for the Ruby lang
ii  libruby1.8 [libyaml-ruby1.8]  1.8.5-3    Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  ruby1.8                       1.8.5-3    Interpreter of object-oriented scr

alexandria recommends no packages.

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Message #31 received at 398205@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rémi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <398205@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: #398205: alexandria: Pulling information from internet sources does not work at all

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:53:36 +0100

Package: alexandria
Version: 0.6.1-1
Followup-For: Bug #398205

This bug seem to not be a bug of alexandria, but of libamazon-ruby. see:
http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/news/2007-12-09--upgrade-to-ruby-amazon-0.9.2.html
Upgrading libamazon-ruby to the package that one can dowlon on this
web page have solved the problem for me.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (700, 'stable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23acer (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alexandria depends on:
ii  gconf2                       2.20.1-2    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libamazon-ruby               0.9.2       a Ruby library for programmatic ac
ii  libgconf2-ruby               0.16.0-10   GConf 2 bindings for the Ruby lang
ii  libgettext-ruby1.8           1.10.0-1    Gettext for ruby1.8
ii  libglade2-ruby               0.16.0-10   Libglade 2 bindings for the Ruby l
ii  libgnome2-ruby               0.16.0-10   GNOME 2 bindings for the Ruby lang
ii  libruby1.8 [libyaml-ruby1.8] 1.8.6.111-3 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  ruby1.8                      1.8.6.111-3 Interpreter of object-oriented scr

alexandria recommends no packages.

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