Re: no binary without source and no source without binary an Packages and Sources files

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 10:31 +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> 	$ wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20140409T000000Z/dists/sid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
> 	$ wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20140409T000000Z/dists/sid/main/source/Sources.xz
> 	$ zutils --zcat Packages.xz | grep-dctrl -P samhain -n -s Version
> 	2.8.3a-1+deb7u1
> 	$ zutils --zcat Sources.xz | grep-dctrl -P samhain -n -s Version
> 	3.1.0-5
[...]
>  - how is this version skew created in the first place?

Mostly by packages failing to build, or architectures being dropped and
the result needing to be cleaned up.

In this particular case, by samhain failing to build on *amd64 and the
p-u version of the package on those architectures thus having to be
pushed up to unstable during a point release, so as not to violate the
archive's version constraints. (Maybe the source should have been
propagated as well, but dak will ensure it's kept around as long as
required.)

   samhain | 2.8.3a-1+deb7u1 |   unstable | amd64, kfreebsd-amd64
   samhain |         3.1.0-5 |   unstable | source, armel, armhf, i386,
kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390x, sparc

Regards,

Adam