Bug#338205: lucene: Change of distribution requires source-full upload with new version

Goswin von Brederlow brederlo at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Wed Nov 9 12:36:18 UTC 2005


Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx.de> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:17:04PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
>> Package: lucene
>> Version: 1.4.3-8
>> Severity: serious
>> Justification: missing sources in main
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> your package lucene recently moved from contrib to main. Unfortunately
>> the DAK is unable to handle two debian revisions of the same upstream
>> version in different distributions (contrib vs. main) and the later
>> upload always has missing sources (for apt-get source or partial
>> mirrors).
>> 
>> In your case this means that the binaries in main do not have source
>> in main which obviously is very bad.
>> 
>> Currently the only way for you to fix this problem is to upload a
>> source-full upload with a new upstream version, e.g. 1.4.3.0-1. The
>> new orig.tar.gz will then be sorted into the right pool dir and
>> everything is fixed.
>
> It is enough to do an upload of 1.4.3-9 with the old orig.tar.gz that
> was in contrib as this orig tarball was not in main yet it doesnt need
> to get recreated.

That won't work since the DAK already has an 1.4.3.orig.tar.gz in its
database and has it in contrib. The filename must differ even though
they are in different distributions.

MfG
        Goswin




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