Mass bug filing: corrupt zip/tar archives in the repository?
There weren't much response on this. I'll go through these bugs now and
file them as wishlist bugs. Any objections?
/Simon
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
> While recursively unpacking source archives in the debian repository
> (see [1]), I noticed a small number of packages that contain corrupt
> zip/tgz archives. Logs from unpacking them are available from:
>
> http://josefsson.org/broken-debian-origs/
>
> The error messages are mixed in the output due to different buffering
> for stdout vs stderr. Searching for ' ' helps to find the real errors.
>
> A dd-list of the 14 packages is included below.
>
> Some of the corrupt archives may actually be appropriate. I could
> imagine that a corrupt archive can be included in a package to test
> regressions for a compressor, or similar self-test reasons. However,
> that should be the exception, and I think the majority (if not all) of
> these packages actually contains unintentionally corrupt archives.
>
> Some of the corrupt archives is the *.orig.tar.gz archive itself, and
> before noticing that this was a generic problem I reported this against
> the 'e3' package, see
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473092>.
>
> This problem could also be due to bugs in tar, gzip or unzip, although I
> find that somewhat unlikely.
>
> I think it would be nice if there weren't corrupt archives in the
> package pool, but I'm not sure if others consider this a real problem.
>
> What do you think about reporting these as wishlist bugs?
>
> Thanks,
> /Simon
>
> [1] http://git.josefsson.org/?p=debian-rfc-search.git;a=summary
>
> Daniel Leidert (dale) <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de>
> apbs (U)
>
> Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mhatta@debian.org>
> blender
> blender (U)
>
> Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>
> apbs (U)
>
> Fathi Boudra <fabo@debian.org>
> strigi (U)
>
> Ludovic Brenta <lbrenta@debian.org>
> gnat-glade
>
> Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@debian.org>
> xstarfish
>
> Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr>
> blender (U)
>
> Paul Cager <paul-debian@home.paulcager.org>
> maven2 (U)
>
> LI Daobing <lidaobing@gmail.com>
> apbs (U)
>
> Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> maven2
>
> Debian KDE Extras Team <pkg-kde-extras@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> strigi
>
> Debichem Team <debichem-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> apbs
>
> Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
> r-cran-xml
>
> Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
> roxen4
>
> Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>
> dtc
>
> Wouter van Heyst <larstiq@larstiq.dyndns.org>
> blender (U)
>
> Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@ofset.org>
> wims-extra
>
> Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
> optcomplete
>
> Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org>
> strigi (U)
>
> Roger So <rogerso@debian.org>
> im-sdk
> im-sdk (U)
>
> Akira TAGOH <tagoh@debian.org>
> im-sdk (U)
>
> Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>
> nbd
>
> Paweł Więcek <coven@debian.org>
> e3
>
>
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