Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.1 Severity: normal Hi, I'm not sure that I have entirely understood this, but I'm reasonably this doesn't work as advertised, so here's a bug report.
In the dpkg manpage for 3.0 (quilt) it says: Any change on a binary file is not representable in a diff and will thus lead to a failure unless the maintainer deliberately decided to include that modified binary file in the debian tarball (by listing it in debian/source/include-binaries). The build will also fail if it finds binary files in the debian sub-directory unless they have been whitelisted through debian/source/include-binaries. At http://people.canonical.com/~jamesw/test_0.1-1.dsc you will find an example source package that ships a binary file upstream, and then modifies this in the packaging, and lists it in include-binaries. If you look in the Debian tarball you will see the file is included as expected. The behaviour seems to differ depending on the environment though. On my Ubuntu lucid system with the above dpkg version installed I cannot extract the source package: dpkg-source: info: extracting test in test-0.1 dpkg-source: info: unpacking test_0.1.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: info: unpacking test_0.1-1.debian.tar.gz tar: testfile: Cannot open: File exists tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors dpkg-source: error: tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions --anchored --no-wildcards -xkf - gave error exit status 2 On Debian sid and Ubuntu maverick it apparently extracts but does the wrong thing (not tested directly on sid, only maverick, prompted by a problem on a sid build slave). It appears to me as though -k is not going to allow include-binaries to do its thing at extraction time. Please test, if the package extracts check "testfile" in the root of the unpacked dir, it should have "good" and not "bad" in it. Thanks, James -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers lucid-updates APT policy: (500, 'lucid-updates'), (500, 'lucid-security'), (500, 'lucid-proposed'), (500, 'lucid') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii base-files 5.0.0ubuntu20.10.04.2 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii binutils 2.20.1-3ubuntu7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.1 Debian package management system ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl ii lzma 4.43-14ubuntu2 Compression method of 7z format in ii make 3.81-7ubuntu1 An utility for Directing compilati ii patch 2.6-2ubuntu1 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl [perl5] 5.10.1-8ubuntu2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules 5.10.1-8ubuntu2 Core Perl modules ii xz-utils 4.999.9beta+20091116-1 XZ-format compression utilities Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 11.4build1 Informational list of build-essent ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1ubuntu1 Gives a fake root environment ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.4.3-1ubuntu1 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.4 [c-compiler] 4.4.3-4ubuntu5 The GNU C compiler ii gnupg 1.4.10-2ubuntu1 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii gpgv 1.4.10-2ubuntu1 GNU privacy guard - signature veri Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests: pn debian-keyring <none> (no description available) pn debian-maintainers <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
