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

Michael Koch konqueror at gmx.de
Wed Nov 9 13:53:52 UTC 2005


On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:36:18PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 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.

Wrong.

We did it already a few times with the same orig tarball. That is no
problem at all.


Cheers,
Michael
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