Bug#629592: cyrus-common-2.2: confusing/contradictory information on lenny->squeeze upgrade

Fri Jun 10 03:13:04 UTC 2011

On the minor matter of getting the update script:

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 10:01 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > 1. I had some trouble retrieving the file;
> > wget
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd-2.4.git;a=blob;f=debian/cyrus-upgrade-db
> >
> > got me a web page. lynx on the same URL got me the general
> repository,
> > not cyrus-upgrade-db.  I ended up navigating to  it through the tree
> > link.
> >
> > Maybe the right way to do this would be obvious if I knew git.
> 
> Just clicking on 'cyrus-upgrade-db' would do the trick. 
I didn't see the link; I got a page of the commit history of the project
apparently.  I think it was some kind of shell quoting problem; when I
said
lynx "http://anonscm....." it worked.

> Here's the
> wgetable link:
> 
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd-2.4.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/cyrus-upgrade-db

BTW, that still is getting me a file that starts like this:
<quote>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">
<!-- git web interface version 1.7.2.5, (C) 2005-2006, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org>, Christian Gierke -->
<!-- git core binaries version 1.7.2.5 -->
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<meta name="generator" content="gitweb/1.7.2.5 git/1.7.2.5"/>
</quote>