Bug#280844: apt: apt-get source mozilla-firefox mangles existing orig.tar.gz

[Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>]

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

>> The diff download has no problems, neither the original one nor the
>> subsequent checksum-checking or whatever.  The HTTP server was
>> rama.progeny.com, where a quick test returns "Server: Apache/1.3.26
>> (Unix)".
>
> apt is returning an error about the diff, though (as well as the
> .orig.tar.gz):
>
> Err http://rama.progeny.com unstable/main mozilla-firefox 1.0-2 (diff)   0 Partial Content
> Failed to fetch http://rama.progeny.com/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox_1.0-2.diff.gz  0 Partial Content

Oh, I didn't notice that.  If I remove the diff.gz after the first
download but not the orig.tar.gz, then apt-get -d source
mozilla-firefox again, then the orig.tar.gz gets mangled as before and
the diff.gz doesn't get downloaded.
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