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[Aurelien Jarno]

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Subject: Re: [buildd-tools-devel] Some Debian package upgrades are corrupting
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On 2017-01-30 16:20, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Holger Levsen (2017-01-30 14:58:33)
> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 02:47:45PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> > > > b.) if thats the case, shall we scan all packages in sid for files which
> > > > have the same timestamp+filename but different checksums and ask for
> > > > binNMUs of those packages?
> > > The version of sbuild used on the buildds probably doesn't bump the timestamp
> > > yet. At least the binNMU-ed packages on my system share the binNMU changelog
> > > timestamp with the timestamp of the last source upload. :)
> > 
> > so it seems we should 
> > 
> > a.) get this fix deployed on all the buildds. (how?)
> > b.) do the b.) above… (because AIUI this issue atm is only be noticed
> >     by those running unstable or stretch, while once stretch is released many
> >     more people will notice it…)
> 
> I'm not involved in buildd development. I think Aurélien Jarno (CC) is involved
> as there are many commits from him in the respective sbuild git branch.
> Possibly the right mailing is debian-dak at l.d.o but I'm not active there.

The right contact point is wb-team at buildd.debian.org or alternatively
the mailing list wb-team at lists.debian.org.


> The buildds are running a custom version of sbuild with their own patches on
> top. So I'd expect that once Stretch is released, they will rebase their
> patches on top of sbuild from Stretch.

We have merged all of our patches except one that disable the init
script at the time of the Jessie release. The patches that have been
added later in this branch are just cherry-picks from the master branch.

Once Stretch is released, we'll indeed do the same process.


> So as far as I understand Henrik's original message, their problem should be
> fixed once packages start being built with sbuild from Stretch which happens
> after the Stretch release.

I don't know what is the issue you are talking about. If there is a
patch available (preferably committed first to the master branch), we
might be able to cherry-pick it.

Aurelien

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
aurelien at aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net
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