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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package netselect
[ Reason ]
Netselect-apt is not able to properly parse the URLs in the mirror list
available in the Debian website. This version fixes the bug in parsing which
makes it work again.
[ Impact ]
If the unblock is not implemented users will not be able to use netselect-apt
[ Tests ]
I have run manually tests in my unstable system to confi
[ Risks ]
The change is very simple. This is a package which is used by a small number of
users.
[ Checklist ]
[x] all changes are documented in the d/changelog
[x] I reviewed all changes and I approve them
[x] attach debdiff against the package in testing
unblock netselect/0.3.ds1-29
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
diff -Nru netselect-0.3.ds1/debian/changelog netselect-0.3.ds1/debian/changelog
--- netselect-0.3.ds1/debian/changelog 2021-07-05 00:14:53.000000000 +0200
+++ netselect-0.3.ds1/debian/changelog 2021-07-04 23:04:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+netselect (0.3.ds1-29) unstable; urgency=high
+
+ * netselect-apt:
+ - Fix bug that makes it output some hosts with negative value (Closes: 920907)
+ - Fix bug in the Pelr parsing which prevented it from processing properly
+ the mirrors listed in the Debian website (Closes: 989674)
+ * debian/control: Move curl to depends as it is required by netselect-apt
+ (Closes: 788793)
+
+ -- Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@debian.org> Sun, 04 Jul 2021 23:04:35 +0200
+
netselect (0.3.ds1-28) unstable; urgency=medium
* Use debhelper files properly to relocation binaries and
diff -Nru netselect-0.3.ds1/debian/control netselect-0.3.ds1/debian/control
--- netselect-0.3.ds1/debian/control 2021-07-05 00:14:53.000000000 +0200
+++ netselect-0.3.ds1/debian/control 2021-07-04 23:04:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@
Package: netselect-apt
Architecture: all
-Depends: wget, netselect (>= 0.3.ds1-17), ${misc:Depends}
-Recommends: curl
+Depends: wget, netselect (>= 0.3.ds1-17), curl, ${misc:Depends}
Enhances: apt
Suggests: dpkg-dev
Description: speed tester for choosing a fast Debian mirror
diff -Nru netselect-0.3.ds1/netselect-apt netselect-0.3.ds1/netselect-apt
--- netselect-0.3.ds1/netselect-apt 2021-07-05 00:14:53.000000000 +0200
+++ netselect-0.3.ds1/netselect-apt 2021-07-04 23:04:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
# Default distribution
distro="stable"
# Default protocol
-protocol="HTTP"
+protocol="http"
# Number of fastest hosts that will be validated
test_hosts="10"
# URL where the mirror list is retrieved from
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
# Second test: do we have the test file we are looking for?
[ -n "$DEBUG" ] && log "DEBUG: Checking if the file '$test_file' is available in site"
- temp=`tempfile`
+ temp=`mktemp`
[ ! -e "$temp" ] && return 0 # Return without error if we cannot create
# a temporary file
curl -m 2 -q -s "$host/$test_file" >$temp 2>&1
@@ -156,12 +156,14 @@
SEARCH="$1"
PROTO="$2"
hosts=$(cat "$infile" \
- | perl -n -e '
+ | perl -n -e '
+ use warnings;
+ use strict;
$/="<br><br>";
- $country_name = ".*";
- $country_iso = "..";
- $country = "'"$country"'";
- $my_country = 1;
+ my $country_name = ".*";
+ my $country_iso = "..";
+ my $country = "'"$country"'";
+ my $my_country = 1;
if ( $country ne "" ) {
$my_country = 0;
if ( $country =~ /^\w{2}$/ ) {
@@ -184,7 +186,7 @@
next if $_ !~ /Site:/;
if( ( /Includes architectures:.+'"$arch"'.+/i ||
$_ !~ /Includes architectures:/ ) &&
- m@<br>'"$SEARCH"':.*<a.*?href="('"$PROTO"'://.*?)">@i && $my_country == 1
+ m@'"$SEARCH"':.*<a.*?href="('"$PROTO"'://.*?)">@i && $my_country == 1
){
print("$1\n");
}}')
@@ -197,7 +199,7 @@
corruptedhosts=$(echo "$out" | egrep '^ *-')
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
log "Detected corrupt scores from bug in netselect: $corruptedhosts"
- out=$(echo "$out" | sed -e '/^-/d')
+ out=$(echo "$out" | sed -e '/^ *-/d')
fi
@@ -262,7 +264,7 @@
log " -i, --infile INFILE Use INFILE as the input file (temp file)"
log " -o, --outfile OUTFILE Use OUTFILE as the output file (sources.list)"
log " -n, --nonfree Use also non-free packages in OUTFILE (no)"
- log " -f, --ftp Use FTP as the protocol for OUTFILE (HTTP)"
+ log " -f, --ftp Use FTP as the protocol for OUTFILE (http)"
log " -t, --tests # Number of hosts to test ($test_hosts)"
log " -c, --country COUNTRY Restrict search to servers in that country"
log " -d, --debug Enable debugging"
@@ -302,7 +304,7 @@
-n|--nonfree) want_nonfree=1; shift ;;
-c|--country) country=$2; shift 2 ;;
-t|--tests) test_hosts=$2; shift 2 ;;
- -f|--ftp) protocol="FTP"; shift ;;
+ -f|--ftp) protocol="ftp"; shift ;;
-d|--debug) DEBUG=1; shift ;;
-h|--help) usage; exit 0;;
--) shift; break;;
@@ -366,7 +368,9 @@
if [ -n "$country" ]; then
log "(will filter only for mirrors in country $country)"
fi
-hosts_netselect=$(run_netselect "Packages over $protocol" $protocol)
+# Convert Search string to uppercase as it is used in the website
+search_string="Packages over ${protocol^^}"
+hosts_netselect=$(run_netselect "$search_string" $protocol)
netselect_rv=$?
if [ $netselect_rv -eq 0 ] ; then
if [ ! -z "$hosts_netselect" ] ; then
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