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and subject line Bug#402233: bugs.debian.org: package list truncated if _amd64
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Package: bugs.debian.org
Severity: minor
Gentlemen, let's examine a recent mail I got (Bug#380558).
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
wwwoffle, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
wwwoffle_2.9a-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/w/wwwoffle/wwwoffle_2.9a-1.diff.gz
wwwoffle_2.9a-1.dsc
to pool/main/w/wwwoffle/wwwoffle_2.9a-1.dsc
wwwoffle_2.9a-1_amd64.deb
to pool/main/w/wwwoffle/wwwoffle_2.9a-1_amd64.deb
wwwoffle_2.9a.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/w/wwwoffle/wwwoffle_2.9a.orig.tar.gz
That's nice to know, but where is the _i386.deb which I am concerned
about, I asked myself hesitatingly.
Well indeed, thank goodness, it is there in
pool/main/w/wwwoffle/wwwoffle_2.9a-1_i386.deb but not mentioned in the
mail!
I approve of short mails, but this truncation is a bug. Saying
pool/main/w/wwwoffle/wwwoffle_2.9a* would be better than this half
list.
I observe the problem happens when _amd64 is involved, and happened
also on a mail I got "(Bug#386274: fixed in mysql-dfsg-5.0 5.0.24a-4)"
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On Sat, 09 Dec 2006, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> I approve of short mails, but this truncation is a bug. Saying
> pool/main/w/wwwoffle/wwwoffle_2.9a* would be better than this half
> list.
Uploads of source packages close bugs. That they also happen to
contain a single binary package is purely by policy. What is reported
is the .dsc of the upload which closed the bug.
It could just as well be a _sparc.deb or a _ppc.deb depending on which
architecture the developer who uploaded the package was using to build
the packages. In short, there's no truncation, therefore no bug.
Don Armstrong
--
Of course, there are cases where only a rare individual will have the
vision to perceive a system which governs many people's lives; a
system which had never before even been recognized as a system; then
such people often devote their lives to convincing other people that
the system really is there and that it aught to be exited from.
-- Douglas R. Hofstadter _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_
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