[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#535425: ia32-libs-tools/create[-all] failures

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: ia32-libs-tools
Version: 20
Severity: normal

Hi Goswin,

many thanks for this nice toolkit!

/usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/createi[-all] fails to do its job. I managed to
track some problems down to

1. /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/fetch calls 'apt-get update' but fails. 
   Running apt-get update manually works fine. I didn't look into
   details of this problem, just removed that line from .../fetch
   Is it really neccessary to call apt-get update from fetch (and every
   time? Wouldn't it be OK to fail during fetching packages if the lists
   are not up-to-date as it would happen with apt-get install?
   The user should just remember to run update first or live with the
   consequences otherwise.

2. fetching the binary/source package fails if there is more than one
   version available, e.g. because sources.list contains stable,
   testing, unstable, ... with appropriate priorities set in the
   preferences file, e.g.

# /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/create bzip2
Fetching source bzip2 1.0.5-3 for bzip2
Fetching source bzip2 1.0.5-2 for bzip2
Fetching source bzip2 1.0.5-1 for bzip2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for bzip2
Fetching source failed
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main bzip2 1.0.5-3 [46.5kB]
Fetched 46.5kB in 0s (679kB/s)
All sources and packages fetched, all versions match.
Enjoy.
dpkg-source: error: cannot open *dsc: No such file or directory

   So let's try some other common syntax to select a specific variant:

# /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/create -t testing bzip2
E: Command line option 't' [from -t] is not known.
...

# /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/create bzip2/testing
W: Unable to locate package bzip2/testing
E: No packages found
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Must specify at least one package to fetch source for
Fetching source failed
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Get:1 http://debian.ae.cs.uni-frankfurt.de testing/main bzip2 1.0.5-2
[45.5kB]
Fetched 45.5kB in 0s (0B/s)
bzip2/testing_*_i386.deb missing

# /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/create bzip2=1.0.5-2
W: Unable to locate package bzip2=1.0.5-2
E: No packages found
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Must specify at least one package to fetch source for
Fetching source failed
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Get:1 http://debian.ae.cs.uni-frankfurt.de testing/main bzip2 1.0.5-2
[45.5kB]
Fetched 45.5kB in 0s (0B/s)
bzip2=1.0.5-2_*_i386.deb missing

    Seems to work a little bit, depending on how the parameter is passed
    to other programs.


The naming of 'create-all' and 'create' is inconsistent to what they do:
'create-all' creates new packages (no parameters, processes a list)
'create' requires a parameter (the package to work on) but only does a
preparating step, not the package build.

There is a script missing that builds converted packages for the command
line parameter(s) together with a changes file so that all this can be
uploaded to a local repository.


Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (130, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash