Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not convinced that the majority of these uncaught problems are > significant enough to worry about. I would be surprised, for example, > if using a non-pristine tarball was ever regarded as a release-critical > issue. > > Why slow down NEW processing

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:18:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The last part is certainly true, although I don't think that makes the > check at that point unuseful. The initial upload is the point at which > it's the most likely that significant misunderstandings or structural > flaws will show

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:27:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Joerg has been moving towards doing more of this, and I applaud him for >> doing so. I hope that anyone else who works on NEW does the same. >> It's one of our best opportunities to raise th

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:27:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Joerg has been moving towards doing more of this, and I applaud him for > doing so. I hope that anyone else who works on NEW does the same. It's > one of our best opportunities to raise the general quality of the archive > up-front,

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While I personally try to take care to only upload pristine .orig.tar.gz > for my own packages (and even think that using the delete option might > be preferable to unpacking and packing again) I distinctly think that > this is out of the scope of NEW

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Bernhard R. Link wrote: > But I think it is a problem that such a thing was able to get in. > As it is not a policy rule broken, I fear less that noone has even > looked at the file. But the alternative of someone looking, realising this > mistake and just letting it in anyway is not very confortin

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080316 21:14]: > There is no requirement that we ship pristine tarballs as downloaded from > upstream. But doing so without a good reason or in this case without any reason at all just makes no sense. I do not know why it is only in the DevRef but not in polic

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:07:48AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I think you want the one that uploaded the .orig.tar.gz, so: > > lynx -dump > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rhinote/news/20060625T184700Z.html | gpg > > --verify > > gpg: Signature made Sun 11 Jun 2006 03:11:54 PM CEST using DS

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:19:45PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080315 21:12]: > > $ cat /srv/ftp.debian.org/queue/reject/rhinote_0.7.0-2_i386.reason > > Rejected: md5sum and/or size mismatch on existing copy of > > rhinote_0.7.0.orig.tar.gz. > > Rejected

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 02:13:32PM +, The Fungi wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:07:48AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I'm going to contact upstream and ask if they would consider > > releasing a new version so that this can get cleaned up. > Wouldn't prepending an epoch be less drastic? D

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 02:13:32PM +, The Fungi wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:07:48AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I'm going to contact upstream and ask if they would consider > > releasing a new version so that this can get cleaned up. > > Wouldn't prepending an epoch be less drastic?

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
The Fungi wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:07:48AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I'm going to contact upstream and ask if they would consider > > releasing a new version so that this can get cleaned up. > > Wouldn't prepending an epoch be less drastic? Doesn't sound like the > mistake was upst

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-16 Thread The Fungi
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:07:48AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I'm going to contact upstream and ask if they would consider > releasing a new version so that this can get cleaned up. Wouldn't prepending an epoch be less drastic? Doesn't sound like the mistake was upstream's... -- { IRL(Jeremy_St

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-16 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:52:32PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote.. > > > But is there a way to know who the sponsor of rhinote_0.7.0-1 was? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lynx -dump > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rhinote/news/20080316T114705Z.html | gpg > > --verify > > gpg: Signature made

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 16/03/2008, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > But is there a way to know who the sponsor of rhinote_0.7.0-1 was? Besides the “lynx -dump”-based solutions mentioned in this thread, there's far easier: | $ who-uploads rhinote # from devscripts | Uploads for rhinote: | 0.7.0-2 to unstable: Kevin Coyner <[

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:37:29PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080315 21:12]: > >> $ cat /srv/ftp.debian.org/queue/reject/rhinote_0.7.0-2_i386.reason > >> Rejected: md5sum and/or size mismatch on ex

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-16 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080315 21:12]: >> $ cat /srv/ftp.debian.org/queue/reject/rhinote_0.7.0-2_i386.reason >> Rejected: md5sum and/or size mismatch on existing copy of >> rhinote_0.7.0.orig.tar.gz. >> Rejected: can not overwrite exi

broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080315 21:12]: > $ cat /srv/ftp.debian.org/queue/reject/rhinote_0.7.0-2_i386.reason > Rejected: md5sum and/or size mismatch on existing copy of > rhinote_0.7.0.orig.tar.gz. > Rejected: can not overwrite existing copy of 'rhinote_0.7.0.orig.tar.gz' > already

Re: package upload rejected - no email

2008-03-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 15/03/2008, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Question: how do I get the newer, correct version of the > .orig.tar.gz into the archives (replacing the earlier version > uploaded previously that does not match upstream's)? You can't replace a .orig.tar.gz in the archive. You have to bump the version (I'm no

Re: package upload rejected - no email

2008-03-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 04:26:56PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Question: how do I get the newer, correct version of the > .orig.tar.gz into the archives (replacing the earlier version > uploaded previously that does not match upstream's)? You need to give it a new version number - it is not poss

Re: package upload rejected - no email

2008-03-15 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 01:11:55PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote.. > > $ cat /srv/ftp.debian.org/queue/reject/rhinote_0.7.0-2_i386.reason > Rejected: md5sum and/or size mismatch on existing copy of > rhinote_0.7.0.orig.tar.gz. > Rejected: can not overwrite existing copy of 'rhinote_0.7.0.ori

Re: package upload rejected - no email

2008-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 03:59:22PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I'm sponsoring a package for someone off of d-mentors and tried to > upload it last night. I never got the typical emails about the > upload being processed, etc. Nor did I get a rejection email. So I > googled a bit and tried the fol

Re: package upload rejected - no email

2008-03-15 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 03:59:22PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote.. > I'm sponsoring a package for someone off of d-mentors and tried to > upload it last night. I never got the typical emails about the > upload being processed, etc. Nor did I get a rejection email. So I > googled a bit and tried

package upload rejected - no email

2008-03-15 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm sponsoring a package for someone off of d-mentors and tried to upload it last night. I never got the typical emails about the upload being processed, etc. Nor did I get a rejection email. So I googled a bit and tried the following command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /org/ftp.debian.org/queue/