Bug#534140: lintian: unknown error processing binary package: "File exists"

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:

> From lintian.log:
> N: ----
> N: Processing binary package doc-linux-it (version 2003.12-1.1) ...
> internal error: File exists
> warning: could not unpack package to desired level
> warning: skipping check of binary package doc-linux-it
> N: ----
> ...
> N: ----
> N: Processing binary package gnade-bin (version 1.6.2-1) ...
> internal error: File exists
> warning: could not unpack package to desired level
> warning: skipping check of binary package gnade-bin
> N: ----
>
> No idea why; trying to reproduce locally: nothing; setting up lab,
> unpacking, checking later: nothing.

Not a bug in Lintian but rather a bug in the way I redid the archive run
on bellini.  There was a copy of a partially updated lab from the rsync,
and then I ran -f instead of -c to use the existing lab without
realizing that would cause the obvious problems.  (In particular, the
reporting harness figures out what packages will require unpacking at
the start of the run, so I think what you're seeing is attempts to
unpack a package over top of an existing unpacked package because of the
inconsistency between the metadata and the lab.)

I'm re-running the full archive run on bellini now with -c, which should
fix this.  Thankfully, a full archive run finishes on bellini in about a
day, as opposed to the four days it takes on gluck.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>