Re: Debian derivatives census: dpkg-source can't unpack some source packages from Kali, LMDE, Parsix, Ubuntu, ZevenOS Neptune

[Alan Baghumian <alan@technotux.org>]

Hi Paul,

This was a direct import/rebuild from Debian archive and wheezy-backport
one seems to have the exact same issue:

http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/usbredir/usbredir_0.6-2~bpo70+1.dsc

Thanks,
Alan

On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 17:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The Debian derivatives census patch generation scripts have detected
> some source packages that couldn't be unpacked by dpkg-source because
> they contain malformed patches, here is some example output:
> 
> $ dpkg-source -x foremost_1.5.7-4kali2.dsc 
> dpkg-source: info: extracting foremost in foremost-1.5.7
> dpkg-source: info: unpacking foremost_1.5.7.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: info: unpacking foremost_1.5.7-4kali2.debian.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: info: applying fix-config-file-path.patch
> dpkg-source: info: applying fix-lintian-hardening-warnings.patch
> dpkg-source: info: the patch has fuzz which is not allowed, or is malformed
> dpkg-source: info: if patch 'fix-lintian-hardening-warnings.patch' is correctly applied by quilt, use 'quilt refresh' to update it
> dpkg-source: error: expected ^--- in line 3 of diff `foremost-1.5.7/debian/patches/fix-lintian-hardening-warnings.patch'
> 
> The root cause of these issues is some security fixes to dpkg:
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2014/06/msg00051.html
> 
> The solution appears to be to fix the patches and rebuild the src pkg:
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2014/07/msg00146.html
> 
> These issues have been present for a while but I only just got around to
> reporting them, apologies for the delay.
> 
> Kali
> 
> http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/f/foremost/foremost_1.5.7-4kali2.dsc
> 
> LMDE
> 
> http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/upstream/s/systemd/systemd_204-5linuxmint1.dsc
> 
> Parsix
> 
> http://packages.parsix.org/official/pool/main/u/usbredir/usbredir_0.6-2.dsc
> 
> Ubuntu
> 
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hfsutils/hfsutils_3.2.6-12ubuntu3.dsc
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/usbredir/usbredir_0.6-2ubuntu1.dsc
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gnome-shell-extensions/gnome-shell-extensions_3.10.1-0ubuntu2.dsc
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/spice-vdagent/spice-vdagent_0.14.0-1ubuntu1.dsc
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/aptdaemon/aptdaemon_0.43+bzr805-0ubuntu7.dsc
> 
> ZevenOS Neptune
> 
> http://proindi.de/zevenos/neptune/kde-repo/pool/main/p/pykde4/pykde4_4.10.0-neptune2.dsc
> 

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