dose3 yaml output is incorrect or ambiguous
Hi,
I'm working on https://debusine.debian.net/ , and we are parsing dose3 output to analyze build failures and dependencies inconsistencies.
Parsing the dose3 YAML output currently leads to 2 main issues:
- packages are unquoted and some troublesome package names are parsed incorrectly by the YAML reader (e.g. package 0xffff is parsed as number
65535) - versions are unquoted and can be incorrectly parsed as floats (e.g.
1.70->1.7or0.6e-7->6.0e-08)- this also applies to dose's own
output-version: 1.2field although that's less likely to cause an issue (until it reaches1.10;))
- this also applies to dose's own
This was first publicly reported (with more details) at: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834059
There is a Python-specific work-around, but this doesn't work for other languages, and is more generally error-prone.
I can dedicate some time working on a patch.