Re: pinfo 0.6.8-4 broken in alioth pure64 depot (pinfo.info zero size)
bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx) writes:
> Sorry for being impatient. I know I could rebuild the package myself.
> But I wanted to make some noise about this package so that the archive
> could get fixed up. The pinfo package in the alioth pure64 archive is
> currently broken by this bad build.
>
> Bob
>
> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> The recent new upload of pinfo to the main sid works fine from the
>> main debian.org archive. But it looks like a problem crept into the
>> alioth pure64 archive. The /usr/share/info/pinfo.info was truncated
>> to an empty file prior to it being gzip'd to pinfo.info.gz. This
>> loses the START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY entry causing install-info to fail upon
>> upgrade or install.
>>
>> Could someone re-queue pinfo to rebuild and then verify the resulting
>> pinfo.info.gz file?
>>
>> Is this an indicator of a systematic failure of some sort in pure64?
>> Are there other packages that suffered a similar problem for the same
>> reason that we should search out and fix at this same time?
>>
>> Bob
Kurt investigated this and found that it is a timestamp skew in the
package causing the file to be sometimes rebuild and if then it ends
up empty.
I'm not sure if you or he filed a bug about this but it would probably
be a good idea to do so now.
MfG
Goswin
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