On 17 December 2011 15:23, Theo Markettos <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 01:33:12PM +0000, John Tytgat wrote:
>> I get the same error.  'fetch-program' downloads various Sources*.bz2
>> files from Debian ftp site which are then used to locate the sources
>> and Debian patches.
>>
>> I suspect that there is something wrong extracting the necessary information
>> from those Sources*.bz2 files.
>
> I had this problem too... the reason is that fetch-program looks at the
> first 26 lines of an entry in the Debian source package list.  Some
> packages now have entries larger than that (for example ncurses has a huge
> list of binary packages that it generates), with the result that the
> Directory: entry (ie where the source package can actually be found on the
> server) was being missed.
>
> I don't know the basis for '26', but I've adjusted it to randomly-selected
> '56' which allows me to build ncurses.  I think the number is immaterial as
> long as it's large enough, since the code also trims off anything after the
> end of the entry.  I've commited r5480 to SVN.  Please let me know if this
> breaks anything else!

Thanks Theo!
I'll update my build and try again.

Rob.

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