Your message dated Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:13:51 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1108671: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #909443, regarding apt-clone: Silently fails when dpkg-repack fails to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: apt-clone Version: 0.4.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I invoked `apt-clone --with-dpkg-repack my-repacked.apt-clone.tar.gz`. I have teamviewer installed, so one of the many packages is teamviewer. Apparently, I deleted /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list at some point in time. This may have confused dpkg-repack. * What was the outcome of this action? The teamviewer package did not get repacked, and was missing from the generated tarball. No exit code indicated that there was an error. (So automation would run into trouble). There was only one warning from apt-clone, buried among many other similar lines: dpkg-deb: Fehler: Conffile »/etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list« kommt nicht im Paket vor dpkg -repack: Error running: dpkg-deb --build dpkg-repack.teamviewer.tTztGb . dpkg -repack: Problems were encountered in processing. dpkg -repack: The package may be broken. If this had been an important package (i.e., the printer drivers that brought me here), and if I hadn't caught this, then I would have been in trouble. * What outcome did you expect instead? I expected one of the following: - Ideal: Set a non-zero exit code, include the "maybe broken" package anyway. - Acceptable: Set a non-zero exit code. - Acceptable: Set a non-zero exit code, refuse to generate apt-clone tarball. Cheers, Ben -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt-clone depends on: ii lsb-release 9.20170808 ii python3 3.6.5-3 ii python3-apt 1.6.2 Versions of packages apt-clone recommends: ii dpkg-repack 1.44 apt-clone suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 0.4.3+nmu3+rm Dear submitter, as the package apt-clone has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1108671 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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