Wrong pristine-tar files in some r-cran-* repositories [Was: r-cran-httpuv_1.3.3-3~bpo8+1_amd64.changes REJECTED]

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for your help; I'll get to it soonish.

Bye, Joost

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On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:57:51PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Joost,
> 
> I tried to upload backports of r-cran-mime and r-cran-httpuv to Jessie
> backports since I intend to backport some packages depending from these.
> Thanks for your initial packaging.
> 
> Both packages were rejected by ftpmaster due to wrong size hashes of the
> orig.tar.gz.  For r-cran-mime I fixed this by comparing what I get via
> `apt-get source r-cran-mime` with the upstream download tarball.  Both
> are identical and thus I fixed the Git repository via
> 
>    gbp import-orig --pristine-tar r-cran-mime_0.4.orig.tar.gz
> 
> When doing the same with r-cran-httpuv_1.3.3.orig.tar.gz I realised that
> the pristine-tar in the Git repository is identical with the upstream
> download (httpuv_1.3.3.tar.gz) but the file inside the Debian archive
> via apt-get source has a different size.
> 
> I suspect something is wrong with your workflow either how you create
> the pristine tar branch (I recommend the command above) or the way you
> are using gbp buildpackage.  Please check your workflow to make sure all
> three files (upstream, pristine-tar and upload) will be identical.
> 
> I'll leave the r-cran-httpuv pristine tar untouched and will upload
> the backport based on the apt-get source result since I have no good
> idea for this case.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.
> 
> 
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> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:35:20 +0000
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> Subject: r-cran-httpuv_1.3.3-3~bpo8+1_amd64.changes REJECTED
> 
> 
> 
> r-cran-httpuv_1.3.3-3~bpo8+1.dsc: Invalid size hash for r-cran-httpuv_1.3.3.orig.tar.gz:
> According to the control file the size hash should be 426665,
> but r-cran-httpuv_1.3.3.orig.tar.gz has 408947.
> 
> If you did not include r-cran-httpuv_1.3.3.orig.tar.gz in your upload, a different version
> might already be known to the archive software.
> 
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> your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
> concerns.
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