Bug 214934

Summary: mail/rss2email2: filter out bad tags
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Jonathan <jonathan>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Tobias Kortkamp <tobik>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Some People CC: pi, srg, w.schwarzenfeld
Priority: --- Flags: bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (srg)
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Jonathan 2016-11-29 22:28:58 UTC 
I ran into an (apparently documented, but very old) bug yesterday. Turns out it's fixed in Debian with a one-line patch, which can be found here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734327;msg=5

The bug is basically triggered by malformed rss feeds. The fix comes down to filtering out bad tags with a kludge like:

- tagline = ",".join(taglist)
+ tagline = ",".join(filter(None, taglist))
Comment 1 Walter Schwarzenfeld freebsd_triage 2018-01-14 00:50:04 UTC 
Created attachment 189695 [details]
svn-diff-rss2mail2
Comment 2 commit-hook freebsd_committer 2018-11-08 11:56:04 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: tobik
Date: Thu Nov  8 11:55:58 UTC 2018
New revision: 484444
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/484444

Log:
  mail/rss2email2: Add workaround for filtering out bad tags

  This can apparently be triggered with malformed RSS feeds.

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py", line 711, in run
      tagline = ",".join(taglist)
  TypeError: sequence item 1: expected string or Unicode, NoneType found

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734327

  - Reset maintainer due to the long timeout

  PR:		214934
  Submitted by:	jonathan@invertedearth.net
  Approved by:	srg@guglielmo.us (maintainer timeout, ~2 years)

Changes:
  head/mail/rss2email2/Makefile
  head/mail/rss2email2/files/patch-rss2email.py
Comment 3 commit-hook freebsd_committer 2018-11-08 13:51:46 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: tobik
Date: Thu Nov  8 13:51:18 UTC 2018
New revision: 484456
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/484456

Log:
  MFH: r484444

  mail/rss2email2: Add workaround for filtering out bad tags

  This can apparently be triggered with malformed RSS feeds.

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py", line 711, in run
      tagline = ",".join(taglist)
  TypeError: sequence item 1: expected string or Unicode, NoneType found

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734327

  - Reset maintainer due to the long timeout

  PR:		214934
  Submitted by:	jonathan@invertedearth.net
  Approved by:	srg@guglielmo.us (maintainer timeout, ~2 years)

  Approved by:	ports-secteam runtime fix blanket

Changes:
_U  branches/2018Q4/
  branches/2018Q4/mail/rss2email2/Makefile
  branches/2018Q4/mail/rss2email2/files/patch-rss2email.py