Re: packages.debian.org lagging?

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil.debian@gmx.net>]

Hi Andrew

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 02:03:57PM -0700, Andrew Bennett wrote:
> I have some pending updates on my wheezy system, but the changelog for the
> updates doesn't show up in apper, and when I look up the packages on
> packages.debian.org, the currently-installed versions of the packages are
> shown but not the to-be-upgraded versions.  For example:
> 
> $ apt-cache policy curl
> curl:
>   Installed: 7.26.0-1+wheezy1
>   Candidate: 7.26.0-1+wheezy2
>   Version table:
>      7.26.0-1+wheezy2 0
>         500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
>  *** 7.26.0-1+wheezy1 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> $
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/curl shows: "Package: curl
> (7.26.0-1+wheezy1)", and
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/curl/curl_7.26.0-1+wheezy1/changelogdoesn't
> show 7.26.0-1+wheezy2 (and replacing 'wheezy1' in the URL with
> 'wheezy2' just gives a 404.
> 
> However, if I look around the actual ftp server, I find 7.26.0-1+wheezy2 in
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/curl/ .
> 
> I have a few packages that are showing the same thing.  Is this just a lag
> on packages.debian.org (perhaps similar to
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566108), or something else?

AFICS, packages.debian.org is still affected by the failure mentioned here[1].

 [1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce/2013/04/msg00000.html

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Salvatore