** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
- The archive.ubuntu.com master server has just been upgraded from lucid
- to precise. As a result, the apt version went from 0.7.25.3 to
- 0.8.16~exp12, and apparently some time in that interval the on-disk
- format of apt-ftparchive's cache changed.
+ Test case:
+ - generate a cachedb with apt-ftparchive from lucid via
+ apt-ftparchive --db old-db 2vcard_0.5-3_all.deb
+ - use apt-ftparchive from precise and run
+ apt-ftparchive --db old-db 2vcard_0.5-3_all.deb
+ and verify that the hashsums are no longer correct
+ - use apt-ftparchive from precise-proposed and run:
+ apt-ftparchive --db old-db 2vcard_0.5-3_all.deb
+ and verify that the hashes are correct now
+
+
+ The archive.ubuntu.com master server has just been upgraded from lucid to
precise. As a result, the apt version went from 0.7.25.3 to 0.8.16~exp12, and
apparently some time in that interval the on-disk format of apt-ftparchive's
cache changed.
This wouldn't be a problem, except apt-ftparchive itself doesn't
*notice* that the cache format has changed, and instead happily reads
the existing files and parses them incorrectly, resulting in corrupted
checksums output in the Packages file for each of the .debs.
apt-ftparchive should version its file formats so that it correctly
notices incompatible cache files.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Precise)
Status: New => In Progress
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Title:
apt-ftparchive on-disk cache format changed between lucid and precise,
results in Packages files with silently corrupted checksums fields
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