bugs: smart on fc5

[Darko Veberic]

Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>>                 if hasdescription:
>>                     desc = info.getDescription()
>>                     if desc:
>>                         for pattern in hasdescription:
>>                             if pattern.search(desc):
>>                                 newpackages[pkg] = True
> 
> Are you able to tell why this is needed? The default description is
> an empty string, which should work fine with the logic currently
> there.

no, the return from info.getDescription() is None in some cases... but 
you are right: maybe the info class should return an empty string.

>>         if self.opts.show_summary:
>>             info = pkg.loaders.keys()[0].getInfo(pkg)
>>             print "-", info.getSummary().encode('utf-8')
> 
> This shouldn't be needed if your terminal is correctly setup either.
> 
> Smart will convert these strings to the preferred encoding
> automatically (converting straight to utf-8 would break anyone
> that doesn't use it).

well that is somehow awkward, don't you think? i have not seen any 
command-line programs that stop working if your terminal does not have 
some capability. without .encode() smart info just stops with an error. 
i know practically nothing about python. i do these changes in order to 
keep the thing running. maybe smart should look into LC_CTYPE and 
decide... i am using smart in console and i would like that it works 
there in the future. gui is just too clumsy...

^C,
-- 
darko.

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