Re: Something seems wrong with the gcc-4.9 source package in the archive
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:42:37PM -0500, wrote:
> I am seeing something very confusing with the gcc-4.9 source package.
>
> On jessie, gcc-4.9 is currentl version 4.9.1-19. However if you do
> 'apt-get source gcc-4.9' it gives you 4.9.2-4. For some reason the
> Sources.xz for jessie contains entries for gcc-4.9 with versions:
> Version: 4.9.1-3
> Standards-Version: 3.9.5
> Version: 4.9.1-8
> Standards-Version: 3.9.5
> Version: 4.9.1-9
> Standards-Version: 3.9.5
> Version: 4.9.1-14
> Standards-Version: 3.9.5
> Version: 4.9.1-15
> Standards-Version: 3.9.5
> Version: 4.9.1-16
> Standards-Version: 3.9.5
> Version: 4.9.1-17
> Standards-Version: 3.9.5
> Version: 4.9.1-18
> Standards-Version: 3.9.5
> Version: 4.9.1-19
> Standards-Version: 3.9.5
> Version: 4.9.2-2
> Standards-Version: 3.9.6
> Version: 4.9.2-3
> Standards-Version: 3.9.6
> Version: 4.9.2-4
> Standards-Version: 3.9.6
>
> I was expecting just 4.9.1-19 to be there.
>
> In adddition to that, if you ask 'apt-cache showsrc gcc-4.9', you
> see the Build-Dep for 4.9.2-4 as needing binutils 2.24.90.20141128,
> but if you look at the debian/control in 4.9.2-4 (that it downloaded),
> the binutils build-dep is in fact 2.23.52. How did it get that wrong
> in the Sources.xz?
>
> So any idea what has gone wrong with the archive maintainance tools for
> jessie and how to get it fixed? For that matter, why are the 4.9.2-4
> sources still in the archive, if no release currently uses it (sid is
> 4.9.2-10 and jessie is 4.9.1-19. The rest would seem like they should
> no longer exist other than on the snapshot server. Currently the list
> of .dsc files for gcc-4.9 in the archive is:
>
> gcc-4.9_4.9.1-3.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.1-7.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.1-8.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.1-9.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.1-14.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.1-15.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.1-16.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.1-17.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.1-18.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.1-19.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.2-2.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.2-3.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.2-4.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.2-5.dsc
> gcc-4.9_4.9.2-10.dsc
>
> That seems a lot longer than one would normally expect to see for
> a package.
>
> So if you ask jessie to get the sources for gcc-4.9, it gets the wrong
> version, and it can't install the build-dep for it because it has the
> wrong build-dep data too.
>
> (Please CC me on replies, since I am not on this list).
Having not had any replies to this, I can only assume I should file a
FTBFS against gcc-4.9 in jessie to get something done about it.
--
Len Sorensen
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