Re: [UDD] Really strange missing homepage field for certain archs in package uisp
On 17/01/11 at 10:37 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> [Marga as maintainer of the package in question in CC, because she
> might or might not have an idea what might have happened.]
>
> Hi,
>
> when rewriting the code for the Blends tasks pages I stumbled upon a
> really strange thing in UDD:
>
> udd=# SELECT DISTINCT package, version, architecture, homepage
> FROM packages WHERE package = 'uisp' ;
> package | version | architecture | homepage
> ---------+------------+----------------+-----------------------------
> uisp | 20050207-4 | alpha | http://www.nongnu.org/uisp/
> uisp | 20050207-4 | amd64 | http://www.nongnu.org/uisp/
> uisp | 20050207-4 | arm |
> uisp | 20050207-4 | armel | http://www.nongnu.org/uisp/
> uisp | 20050207-4 | hppa | http://www.nongnu.org/uisp/
> uisp | 20050207-4 | hurd-i386 |
> uisp | 20050207-4 | i386 | http://www.nongnu.org/uisp/
> uisp | 20050207-4 | ia64 |
> uisp | 20050207-4 | kfreebsd-amd64 | http://www.nongnu.org/uisp/
> uisp | 20050207-4 | kfreebsd-i386 | http://www.nongnu.org/uisp/
> uisp | 20050207-4 | mips | http://www.nongnu.org/uisp/
> uisp | 20050207-4 | mipsel | http://www.nongnu.org/uisp/
> uisp | 20050207-4 | powerpc |
> uisp | 20050207-4 | s390 | http://www.nongnu.org/uisp/
> uisp | 20050207-4 | sparc |
>
>
> I do not have the slightest idea why the homepage field is missing for
> some architectures and is there for others. I checked out the source
> package and can not see any reason for this. I have not (yet) done any
> systematic research whether this might concern other packages as well.
> I wonder whether the source of this problem is the package itself,
> some bug in the UDD importer or some other problem.
It might be that the buildd was using a version of dpkg which did not
know about the Homepage field.
The field is also missing in the Packages file.
- Lucas
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