This is even for true for official packages but where you happen to have a newer version installed than is available from the official repos. I found this out when trying to look at reviews for gjots2 which I maintain in Debian. Basically, quite often you will be locking out Maintainers from having a look at how their packages are reviewed.
** Tags added: precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/845146 Title: error when fetching reviews for third-party repositories Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The following error occurred when visiting the details page for Opera web-browser: 2011-09-09 09:01:48,090 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - exit code 1 from helper 2011-09-09 09:01:48,091 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - got error from helper: 'ERROR:__main__:get_reviews Traceback (most recent call last): File "./data/piston_get_reviews_helper.py", line 73, in <module> piston_reviews = try_get_reviews(kwargs) File "./data/piston_get_reviews_helper.py", line 23, in try_get_reviews piston_reviews = rnrclient.get_reviews(**kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/validators.py", line 41, in wrapper return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/validators.py", line 37, in wrapper pattern)) ValidationException: Argument 'origin' must match pattern '[0-9a-z+-.:/]+$' ' The visual result in the UI is that the fetching reviews spinner just goes on spinning forever. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/845146/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
