[Pkg-jed-sl-modules] Re: Bug#339578: ftp.debian.org: main/s/slirp/ directory in pool is messed up

Jeroen van Wolffelaar jeroen at wolffelaar.nl
Thu Nov 17 13:15:30 UTC 2005


severity 339578 normal
retitle 339578 slirp got accidently hijacked by slang-slirp
thanks

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:56:37AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> I screwed up the main/s/slirp dircetory in the packages pool when uploading
> the slang-slirp package some time ago.  The slang-slirp package had slirp as
> the name of its source package.  I did not realized that there was already a
> package with this name in the archive.
> 
> I already contacted the maintainer of slirp about thjis and also uploaded a
> new slang-slirp package which has slang-slirp as the name of its source.
> 
> The slang-slirp package has version 1.7.6.r3-1 and supplemented the source
> package for slirp in unstable, which had version 1.0.16-2.  I do not know
> exactly what has to be done to fix the problem.  At any rate, the following
> files are extraneous to main/s/slirp:
> 
>      slang-slirp_1.7.6.r3-1_*.deb
>      slirp_1.7.6.r*
>      
> I guess they should be removed by hand.

No, they should not. Files in pool are simply removed automatically
after a few days (typically 2) when they are not referred to from
Packages files anymore.

What happened is that slirp got hijacked by this erroneous upload, and
that the 'old', 'real' slirp needs a new epoched upload to restore the
situation. There has been a slirp of higher version that the real slirp
in the archive now, so you cannot get back to a lower version.

I'm leaving this bug open for now on ftp.debian.org, because due to
automatic binary packages removal there is a risk that there will be a
package version rollback in the archive, and I want to manually verify
that that does not happen.
 
--Jeroen

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