[[!meta title="addurl failure with non-standard torrent file"]] ### Please describe the problem. Adding a magnet link via addurl fails after downloading the torrent metatdata if the "announce" field of the torrent is empty ### What steps will reproduce the problem? git annex addurl "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:88066b90278f2de655ee2dd44e784c340b54e45c" ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? git-annex version: 6.20160126 archlinux ### Please provide any additional information below. I have traced back the Problem to the parsing of the torrent metatdata. Since you also seem to be the author of the haskel-torrent parser I felt it is apropriate to post here. The above magnet link (an Archlinux Iso) results in a .torrent file that has no "announce" entry. Instead it only has the entry "announce-list" with multiple urls. This causes the parser to fail. I dont know if having only "announce-list" horribly violates some standard, however a second magnet link that i tried showed the same behaviour so this might not be an unusual case. I was able to put in a workarround in btshowmetainfo.py to set "annonuce" to the first entry from "announce-list" if it wasn't defined. My git-annex binary is compiled with the haskel parser enabled do this doesn't change annexs' behaviour. It's not a big dealbreaker for me, just playing arround with the torrent feaure for now. [[!format sh """ # If you can, paste a complete transcript of the problem occurring here. # If the problem is with the git-annex assistant, paste in .git/annex/daemon.log git annex addurl "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:88066b90278f2de655ee2dd44e784c340b54e45c" (downloading torrent file...) 02/07 16:42:13 [NOTICE] IPv4 DHT: listening on UDP port 6964 02/07 16:42:13 [NOTICE] IPv4 BitTorrent: listening on TCP port 6927 02/07 16:42:13 [NOTICE] IPv6 BitTorrent: listening on TCP port 6927 [#96c5b2 27KiB/27KiB(100%) CN:11 SD:2] 02/07 16:42:32 [NOTICE] Download complete: [METADATA]88066b90278f2de655ee2dd44e784c340b54e45c 02/07 16:42:32 [NOTICE] Saved metadata as ../../.git/annex/misctmp/URL--magnet&c,63xt,61urn&cbtih&c88066b90278f2de655ee2dd44e784c340b54e45c/meta/88066b90278f2de655ee2dd44e784c340b54e45c.torrent. Download Results: gid |stat|avg speed |path/URI ======+====+===========+======================================================= 96c5b2|OK | 0B/s|[MEMORY][METADATA]88066b90278f2de655ee2dd44e784c340b54e45c Status Legend: (OK):download completed. git-annex: failed to parse torrent: Name not found in dictionary: announce # End of transcript or log. """]] ### Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)