Blank line bug (aka #684503) and its consequences

[Michael Tautschnig]

Hi,

> Hi,
> 
> Le dimanche 25 novembre 2012 à 23:37 +0100, Michael Tautschnig a
> écrit : 
> > Dear GNOME package maintainers,
> > 
> > In #684503 [1] I had reported the spurious blank line in gnome-pkg-tools'
> > control.header file. As there might have been some concern as to whether this
> > indeed is a policy violation, I initiated some further discussion on d-devel
> > [2].
> 
> I don’t think there is a consensus that this is a policy violation.
> Without a clarification of the policy we have to presume that it is not.
>

Indeed a clarification of policy is desirable, and I'm going to ask for it. I'm
for now just trying to figure out which technical options exist for all involved
parties. But it's still a bit discomforting that a single package interpreting
policy differently from all the other >17,000 packages requires other packages
(or policy) to change.

> > As I had promised in that thread, I would eventually ask for further feedback
> > from the GNOME team: to fully solve this problem, a rebuild of 213
> > packages will be required. My main question is: is there any infrastructure used
> > by your team that could be used to automate such a process? The steps required
> > to fix the problem are:
> > 
> > 1. Fix #684503 in gnome-pkg-tools and upload gnome-pkg-tools to unstable.
> > 2. Rebuild all packages build-depending on gnome-pkg-tools and upload them.
> > 
> > If no such infrastructure exists, I'd simply ask for #684503 to be fixed (Ubuntu
> > has done so several weeks ago already) in gnome-pkg-tools. Then at least any
> > future uploads of build-depending packages will come with the bugfix.
> 
> You could also fix pbuilder. This should be just as easy as step#1 and
> does not require step#2.
> 

I don't know whether this means that no such infrastructure exists? But indeed
changing pbuilder is another possible way forward. Bug asking for clarification
of policy is filed: #694384.

Best,
Michael

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