Bug#373864: debarchiver: binary-all packages not getting indexed in binary-<arch>/Packages and Contents-<arch>
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:34:38AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Am Montag, den 19.06.2006, 11:50 +0200 schrieb Michael Vogt:
> > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 08:31:02PM +0000, Julian Mehnle wrote:
> > > Daniel Leidert wrote:
> > > > reassign 373864 apt-utils
> > > > retitle 373864 gzip-name gets mangled if apt-ftparchive is run via
> > > > cron-job merge 373864 341326
> > > > thanks
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > > it is the same bug:
> > > > [...]
> > > > I therefor reassigned, retitled and merged this report with 341326. It
> > > > is not a debarchiver bug.
> > >
> > > Well, that's great and all, but what am I supposed to do now?
> > > apt-ftparchive being known to be broken, and with bug #341326 not being
> > > looked after since Nov 2005, shouldn't debarchiver NOT rely on that broken
> > > tool?
> > >
> > > At the very least, debarchiver should explicitly recommend a work-around
> > > such as the use of the "-a" switch to cause dpkg-scan{packages,sources} to
> > > be used instead of apt-ftparchive. Would that be a good work-around?
> >
> > Can someone please test the attached patch and let me know if it fixes
> > the problem?
>
> After the issue re-appeared for me (between June 21.-23., at 21. I wrote
> my mail and at 23. I've uploaded a package and debarchiver failed, what
> I noticed today). Now I again tried your patch, and the issue
> disappeared. If interested, I can send you the list of packages
> updated/changed on my system between 21. and 23 to examine, what has
> changed.
Thanks for this update, I'm pretty convinced that the patch fixes the
issue. I put it into my bzr repository and it will be part of the next
upload.
Cheers,
Michael
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