[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1063191: libcifpp-data: Incorrect URL in update-libcifpp-data script

[Maarten L. Hekkelman]

Hi Andreas,

The URL's were updated in upstream some time ago. The debian version of 
libcifpp (and all dependent tools) are a bit out of date.

The problem I have is that development of libcifpp is a bit too fast. 
Whenever I break the ABI I have to ask for someone to upload a newer 
version. And last time this apparently did not went well and so the 
update stalled. I don't remember who I asked to update, but since that 
didn't happen I forgot about it.

Anyway, so I had an upload ready for version 5.2 and libcifpp is now at 
version 6.1. I will thus have to prepare yet another update and then 
upload all depending packages. I'll see what I can do.

regards, -maarten

Op 13-02-2024 om 08:28 schreef Andreas Tille:
> Hi Maarten,
>
> since last September there is a new upstream version in Git which was
> not uploaded.  I see less instances of ftp.wwpdb.org in this code but
> there are some remainings.  It would be great if you could upload your
> preparation after checking that the bug below is fixed.
>
> Kind regards
>     Andreas.
>
> Am Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 11:27:36AM -0500 schrieb Rick Bernard:
>> Package: libcifpp-data
>> Version: 5.0.7.1-3
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: patch
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>>
>>     * What led up to the situation?
>>     Installing libcifpp-data via "apt install".  The incorrect URL causes apt to
>> hang for a long period of time before returrning to a prompt.  As a result, the
>> file supposed to be loaced in /var/cache/libcifpp/components.cif fails to
>> download.  The Stable version of this package was showing timeout errors when
>> attempting to connect to https://ftp.wwpdb.org.  The correct URL that is
>> published by wwpdb.org is https://files.wwpdb.org for downloading via HTTP.
>> This will happen durring install via apt when you are prompted Package
>> configuration about setting up weekly downloads of these data files from
>> wwpdb.org.
>>
>>     * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>>       ineffective)?
>>      Editing the file /etc/cron.weekly/update-libcifpp-data and changing the URL
>> for the components.cif download from https://ftp.wwpdb.org to
>> https://files.wwpdb.org leaving all subpaths the same resolves the issue.  This
>> also helps with the stable version of this package and fixes dpkg and apt when
>> running "dpkg --configure -a"
>>
>>     * What was the outcome of this action?
>>       Resolves the package install and fixes apt/dpkg package management system.
>>
>>     * What outcome did you expect instead?
>>      The expected outcome is that "apt install" will successfully install the
>> package and be able to run the download scripts successfully.
>>
>> *** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
>>
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: 12.4
>>    APT prefers stable
>>    APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'testing')
>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>> Foreign Architectures: i386
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-17-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
>> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>>
>> Versions of packages libcifpp-data depends on:
>> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.82
>>
>> libcifpp-data recommends no packages.
>>
>> libcifpp-data suggests no packages.
>>
>> -- debconf information:
>> * libcifpp/update: true
>> --- update-libcifpp-data.orig	2024-02-05 11:13:15.964579981 -0500
>> +++ update-libcifpp-data	2024-02-05 11:24:35.219320601 -0500
>> @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
>>   
>>   # Update the dictionaries
>>   
>> -update_dictionary "/var/cache/libcifpp/components.cif" "https://ftp.wwpdb.org/pub/pdb/data/monomers/components.cif.gz"
>> +update_dictionary "/var/cache/libcifpp/components.cif" "https://files.wwpdb.org/pub/pdb/data/monomers/components.cif.gz"
>>   update_dictionary "/var/cache/libcifpp/mmcif_pdbx.dic" "https://mmcif.wwpdb.org/dictionaries/ascii/mmcif_pdbx_v50.dic.gz"
>>   update_dictionary "/var/cache/libcifpp/mmcif_ma.dic" "https://github.com/ihmwg/ModelCIF/raw/master/dist/mmcif_ma.dic"
>>   
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Maarten L. Hekkelman
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