Bug#764865: mk-origtargz: cannot repack Microsoft OOXML files although they are zipped

[Markus Koschany]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.14.8
Severity: normal


Hi,

I am in the process of packaging jchart2d, a Java library and I need
to repack the source tarball. When I download the source tarball,
uscan / mk-origtargz fails with the following error message:

Command:

uscan --verbose --repack --compression xz --force-download

Error:

jchart2d-eclipse-project-3.2.2.zip does not look like a tar archive or
a zip file. at /usr/bin/mk-origtargz line 326

The file can be downloaded from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jchart2d/files/jchart2d/sources/jchart2d-eclipse-project-3.2.2.zip/download

Now the file utility tells me that jchart2d-eclipse-project-3.2.2.zip is a Microsoft OOXML
file and that is probably the reason why mk-origtargz refuses to
repack the tarball. However this format is zipped and unzip is able to unpack
it perfectly.

I know that upstream should use a sane compression format but I would
already be happy if there were a uscan or mk-origtargz option to
override this behaviour and tell them to ignore the confusing
Microsoft OOXML format and treating it as a zip file.

Thanks

Markus


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.17.16
ii  libc6        2.19-11
ii  perl         5.20.1-1
ii  python3      3.4.2-1
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                          3.1.16-1
ii  curl                        7.38.0-2
ii  dctrl-tools                 2.23
ii  debian-keyring              2014.08.31
ii  dput                        0.9.6.4
ii  equivs                      2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                    1.20.2-1
ii  file                        1:5.19-2
ii  gnupg                       1.4.18-4
ii  libdistro-info-perl         0.13
ii  libencode-locale-perl       1.03-1
ii  libjson-perl                2.61-1
ii  liblwp-protocol-https-perl  6.06-2
pn  libparse-debcontrol-perl    <none>
pn  libsoap-lite-perl           <none>
ii  liburi-perl                 1.64-1
ii  libwww-perl                 6.08-1
ii  lintian                     2.5.28
ii  man-db                      2.7.0.2-2
ii  patch                       2.7.1-6
ii  patchutils                  0.3.3-1
ii  python3-debian              0.1.24
ii  python3-magic               1:5.19-2
ii  sensible-utils              0.0.9
ii  strace                      4.9-2
ii  unzip                       6.0-12
ii  wdiff                       1.2.2-1
ii  wget                        1.15-1+b1
ii  xz-utils                    5.1.1alpha+20120614-2

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  build-essential              11.7
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
pn  gnuplot                      <none>
ii  gpgv                         1.4.18-4
ii  heirloom-mailx [mailx]       12.5-3
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1600-1
pn  libfile-desktopentry-perl    <none>
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.01-3
pn  libterm-size-perl            <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
pn  libyaml-syck-perl            <none>
pn  mutt                         <none>
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.7p1-2
ii  svn-buildpackage             0.8.5
pn  w3m                          <none>

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