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Re: Missing firefox source and unofficial debian-amd64 breakage



* Jeroen van Wolffelaar (jeroen@wolffelaar.nl) wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 09:57:32PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 09:49:29PM +0200, Mike Hommey <glandium@debian.org> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 02:46:47PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > as some might have noticed the Debian archive is missing
> > > > 
> > > > /debian/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2.orig.tar.gz
> > > > 
> > > > The missing file has a sideeffect for the debian-amd64 archive because
> > > > the sync-script detects an inconsistency and stops. Since it goes
> > > > alphabeticaly and package after firefox won't be updated to the latest
> > > > version anymore.
> > > > 
> > > > >From my irc backlog this looks like a DAK screwup and not the
> > > > maintainers fault and is probably being investigated already. But that
> > > > doesn't help the rest of the world in the short run.
> > > 
> > > AFAIK, the breakage is due to the fact that 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-1 is
> > > sitting in the NEW queue. I guess Eric didn't make a sourceful upload
> > > for 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-2, thus the missing orig.tar.gz file.
> > 
> > Better than that. Eric DID a sourceful upload which got rejected because
> > the .orig.tar.gz was in the NEW queue. Then he uploaded without the
> > source and that's what got into the archive.
> > Now, 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-1 has been rejected, without any reason given.
> 
> There should have been a reason in the reject mail, and even if not, the
> footer asks to reply if you don't understand. Anyway, the reason was
> that currently 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-2 is in unstable, and 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-1
> is smaller, so cannot be anything else than rejected. You can of course
> re-upload to NEW with a higher version number.
> 
> Anyway, the .orig.tar.gz is now restored and should be on your local
> mirror around nowish.

Thanks very much Jeroen.

Should I file a bug somewhere about this? Clearly I hit a corner case
that dak doesn't handle quite right. 

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