Bug#280844: apt: apt-get source mozilla-firefox mangles existing orig.tar.gz
Package: apt
Severity: normal
Version: 0.5.27
I see the following behavior in apt-get source (on an amd64 machine,
but it also seems to happen under an i386 chroot):
daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ apt-get -d source mozilla-firefox
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 40.6MB of source archives.
Get:1 http://rama.progeny.com unstable/main mozilla-firefox 1.0-2 (dsc) [979B]
Get:2 http://rama.progeny.com unstable/main mozilla-firefox 1.0-2 (tar) [40.5MB]
Get:3 http://rama.progeny.com unstable/main mozilla-firefox 1.0-2 (diff) [75.0kB]
Fetched 40.6MB in 5m11s (130kB/s)
Download complete and in download only mode
daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ grep tar\\.gz *.dsc
e1dcd4f96def114bcfbc706fbafe6f3d 40543738 mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz
daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ md5sum *.tar.gz
e1dcd4f96def114bcfbc706fbafe6f3d mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz
daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ ls -l
total 39724
-rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 75014 2004-11-10 21:32 mozilla-firefox_1.0-2.diff.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 979 2004-11-10 21:32 mozilla-firefox_1.0-2.dsc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 40543738 2004-11-10 20:17 mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz
daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ rm *.dsc
daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ cp *.tar.gz backup.tar.gz
daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ apt-get -d source mozilla-firefox
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 40.6MB of source archives.
Get:1 http://rama.progeny.com unstable/main mozilla-firefox 1.0-2 (dsc) [979B]
Get:2 http://rama.progeny.com unstable/main mozilla-firefox 1.0-2 (tar) [40.5MB]
Err http://rama.progeny.com unstable/main mozilla-firefox 1.0-2 (diff)
0 Partial Content
Fetched 979B in 0s (1240B/s)
Failed to fetch http://rama.progeny.com/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz MD5Sum mismatch
Failed to fetch http://rama.progeny.com/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox_1.0-2.diff.gz 0 Partial Content
E: Failed to fetch some archives.
daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ md5sum m*.tar.gz.FAILED
7748ca6b88ffa8f818e78ed5ed25b8f2 mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz.FAILED
daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ cmp backup.tar.gz *.tar.gz.FAILED
backup.tar.gz mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz.FAILED differ: byte 40543738, line 154710
daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ ls -l
total 79364
-rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 40543738 2004-11-11 16:18 backup.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 75014 2004-11-10 21:32 mozilla-firefox_1.0-2.diff.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 979 2004-11-10 21:32 mozilla-firefox_1.0-2.dsc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 40543738 2004-11-10 20:17 mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz.FAILED
Oddly, it's done the same thing with other mozilla-firefox tarballs in
the past, but not on any other packages (at least none that are
actively maintained).
--
Daniel Schepler "Please don't disillusion me. I
schepler@math.berkeley.edu haven't had breakfast yet."
-- Orson Scott Card
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