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 policy.

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 conforting

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 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
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 the

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 up.

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 to

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 in the

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 existing copy of

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 existing copy of

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 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 Sun 16 Mar

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... -- {

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

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 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?

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: can not

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 DSA key ID

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

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 the

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

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

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

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 not