checkbox writes to .cache/checkbox/submission before submission completes

For example if you were to search the database for the CheckboxSubmission in this bug report you would not, or should not, find it.

Abel - what will happen in the case that an invalid or non-existent HWDB-Submission is used when reporting a bug in Launchpad?

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On 02.03.2010 00:17, Brian Murray wrote:
> Abel - what will happen in the case that an invalid or non-existent
> HWDB-Submission is used when reporting a bug in Launchpad?
>

unfortunately, nothing... The line
"CheckboxSubmission: fee5e196cb921cbd36888f428b38b488" is at present
simply not processed...

I filed bug 530556 about it.
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On 02.03.2010 10:14, Abel Deuring wrote:
> On 02.03.2010 00:17, Brian Murray wrote:
>> Abel - what will happen in the case that an invalid or non-existent
>> HWDB-Submission is used when reporting a bug in Launchpad?
>
>
> unfortunately, nothing... The line
> "CheckboxSubmission: fee5e196cb921cbd36888f428b38b488" is at present
> simply not processed...
>
> I filed bug 530556 about it.

...and this is complete nonsense -- I was too stupid to find the code
when I wrote the answer.
lp.bug.browser.bugtarget.FileBugViewBase.submit_bug_action does indeed
create links between bugs and HWDB submissions:

         for submission_key in extra_data.hwdb_submission_keys:
             submission = submission_set.getBySubmissionKey(
                 submission_key, self.user)
             if submission is not None:
                 bug.linkHWSubmission(submission)

(line 648).

So: A link between a bug and a HWDB submission is created, if the the
HWDB submission exists. If doesn't for whichever reason (mostly likely
because checkbox did create a submission ID but nothing was uploaded or
an error like a timeout occurred during the upload), the invalid /
non-extistent submission key is silently ignored.
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If the fix was committed 10 days ago, what's preventing the bug from being fixed in the archive? This has now missed beta-1.

The reason is the review process for inclusion in the main archive was longer than expected. The merge request has been finally approved yesterday, see bug #548800 for more details.

This bug was fixed in the package checkbox - 0.9.1

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checkbox (0.9.1) lucid; urgency=low

  New upstream release (LP: #548800):
  * Added cpu_scaling_test script.
  * Fixed hard drive detection (LP: #549714)
  * Fixed backend to handle empty messages (LP: #536645)
  * Fixed parsing of package resource (LP: #539691)
  * Fixed malformed xml report (LP: #485445)
  * Fixed running root manual tests as normal user (LP: #383559)
  * Fixed writing apport files only after submitting (LP: #530380)
  * Fixed audio test instructions (LP: #529205)
  * Fixed gathering chassis information (LP: #537435)
  * Fixed detection of disks in kvm (LP: #552998)
  * Fixed udev_resource script to be more resilient (LP: #552999)
  * Fixed filter_packages script to use new resources.
 -- Marc Tardif <email address hidden> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:05:44 -0400