[DRE-maint] Bug#800108: gem2deb: permanently broken when cache is missing

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 05:45:25PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 01:40:00PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > I tried in several ways, by removing my cache, adding garbage to it,
> > both on my main system with my own user account and on a clean chroot
> > with a freshly-created user account and no previous apt-file data, and
> > couldn't reproduce this. Everytime I do get the invalid cache error, but
> > the cache _is_ rebuilt the next time.
> > 
> > Can you provide a list of steps that will reproduce this?
> 
> It looks like the output of apt-file is empty, which leads to an invalid
> cache:
> 
>   vauxhall ok % apt-file search /usr/share/rubygems-integration/
>   vauxhall ok %
> 
> This may be because I changed package mirrors recently and didn't run
> apt-file update.  gem2deb should detect this case and handle it more
> gracefully.

well, gem2deb notices the empty cache and tells you that you need to run
`apt-file update` before continuing, so unless you show me how else it
breaks, I suspect that there is nothing to fix here.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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