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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package httrack from sid to testing/wheezy, or block current testing/wheezy version if this is too late (which is something I am fearing)
As reminder, httrack is a website copier (ie. same category as wget)
The current stable/squeeze version (3.43.9-1) is a bit old, and has several bugs:
- random corruption of files during updates (#607704)
- random crash when interrupting a mirror (#657878)
- buffer overflow while repairing cache (#614966)
But OTOH, the current testing/wheezy release (3.46.1-1) also has serious issues:
- random closing of files/sockets, leading to break randomly download of files of produce files with garbage (#706535) ; 3.46 and 3.43 issue
- UTF-8 conversion bug on Linux that may lead to buggy filenames and invalid filenames in current working directory (#706536) ; 3.46 speficic issue
- memory leak in hashtable, that may lead to excessive memory consumption (#706537) ; 3.46 and 3.43 issue
BUG #706536 (testing-version specific) is especially annoying, as it randomly breaks downloaded filenames if they contain non-ascii characters, and can create garbage files in current working directory (might be more than "important").
BUG #706535 (stable/testing specific, fixed in sid) is also annoying (random breakage of downloaded files), but impacts all versions prior to sid.
I therefore would suggest either to accept current SID version (3.47.7-1) in testing, or, considering the very late delay (and the fact that the sid version is new), blocking the testing version. The diff between stable and sid is important, due to new features (such as UTF-8 filenames handling), but the diff between testing and sid is reasonnable.
Sorry for the very late notification - I have been tricked by the timing again!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.7
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.8.4-grsec (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 17:06 +0200, Xavier Roche wrote:
> Le 01/05/2013 17:01, Adam D. Barratt a écrit :
> > That's not really practical at this point, no.
>
> Yep, seems logical.
>
> Then we can either let the 3.46.1-1 release (and have an update later -
> in such case please close this ticket) or unblock 3.47.7-1 when possible.
Looking through the upload history, there appear to have been nine
uploads in around two weeks. On that basis, I'm afraid I'm not
particularly happy to unblock the package at this point.
Let's stick with 3.46.1-1 for now and revisit which fixes might be
suitable for a stable update after the release.
Regards,
Adam
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