[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1002253: Help with possibly broken ar archive (Was: Bug#1002253: libatomic-queue: FTBFS: dpkg-gensymbols: error: some symbols or patterns disappeared in the symbols file: see diff output below)

[Andreas Tille]

Control: tags -1 pending

Am Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 05:33:32PM +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum:
> Source: libatomic-queue
> Version: 0.0+git20201108.d9d66b6-4
> Severity: serious
> Justification: FTBFS

This is solved in Git.  However, when I try to build the status in Git I
get:
 

E: libatomic-queue-dev: unpack-message-for-deb-data ar failed for usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatomic_queue.a
N: 
N:   Unpacking the contents of the data.tar.gz member of this installable package produced the listed error.
N:   
N:   It probably means something is broken or the package was somehow constructed in a strange way.
N: 
N:   Visibility: error
N:   Show-Always: no
N:   Check: lintian
N: 


and in fact when I install the packages I get:


$ ar t /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatomic_queue.a
ar: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatomic_queue.a: malformed archive


I've never seen this before and I wonder whether this is something
I should be concerned about before uploading.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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