owner 178507 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
thanks
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:22:41AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> If a bug is believed to be specific to a security release, it should be
> forwarded to the security team ASAP.
>
> But anyway, the security update of course did not explicitly move any files
> around, and this bug almost certainly existed prior to the update (though it
> may have been lurking in the source package, which had not been compiled for
> some time).
>
> What's more, this bug only seems to affect powerpc. Perhaps someone able to
> build kdebase on that architecture could do so and determine whether a
> binary NMU would fix this bug.
>
> mdz@auric:/org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool/main/k/kdebase$ debdiff konqueror_2.2.2-14{,.7}_powerpc.deb
> Files in second .deb but not in first
> -------------------------------------
> /usr/share/services/kded/favicons.desktop
> [...]
> mdz@auric:/org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool/main/k/kdebase$ debdiff kdebase-libs_2.2.2-14{,.7}_powerpc.deb
> Files in first .deb but not in second
> -------------------------------------
> /usr/share/services/kded/favicons.desktop
> [...]
> mdz@auric:/org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool/main/k/kdebase$ debdiff kdebase-libs_2.2.2-14{,.7}_i386.deb
> File lists identical (after any substitutions)
> [...]
> mdz@auric:/org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool/main/k/kdebase$ debdiff konqueror_2.2.2-14{,.7}_i386.deb
> File lists identical (after any substitutions)
> [...]
>
> I checked ia64, m68k and sparc in similar fashion and they all showed identical
> file lists.
Here's some more telling debdiffage:
sisyphus:~# debdiff kdebase-libs_2.2.2-14_{i386,powerpc}.deb
Files in second .deb but not in first
-------------------------------------
/usr/share/services/kded/favicons.desktop
The following lines in the control files differ (wdiff output format):
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Architecture: [-i386-] {+powerpc+}
Installed-Size: [-5288-] {+5852+}
sisyphus:~# debdiff konqueror_2.2.2-14_{i386,powerpc}.deb
Files in first .deb but not in second
-------------------------------------
/usr/share/services/kded/favicons.desktop
The following lines in the control files differ (wdiff output format):
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Architecture: [-i386-] {+powerpc+}
Installed-Size: [-4972-] {+5324+}
sisyphus:~# debdiff kdebase-libs_2.2.2-14.7_{i386,powerpc}.deb
File lists identical (after any substitutions)
The following lines in the control files differ (wdiff output format):
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Architecture: [-i386-] {+powerpc+}
Installed-Size: [-5320-] {+5848+}
sisyphus:~# debdiff konqueror_2.2.2-14.7_{i386,powerpc}.deb
File lists identical (after any substitutions)
The following lines in the control files differ (wdiff output format):
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Architecture: [-i386-] {+powerpc+}
Installed-Size: [-4984-] {+5332+}
So what happened was that the original upload of kdebase for woody was
hosed on powerpc. Therefore, this wasn't really a problem with a
security release, strictly speaking. However, you only notice it when
you try to install a security-updated version...
I've reproduced this bug again in a woody chroot on powerpc.
Given that no member of the KDE team has ever said anything about this
year-and-a-half-old RC bug, I will prepare an NMU for proposed-updates
that will do the following:
Package: konqueror
Replaces: kdelibs-base (<= 4:2.2.2-14.7)
We don't have architecture-specific package relationships for anything
but Build-Depends and -Conflicts. Ah, well.
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