[Qa-debsources] Bug#808216: debmirror: Debmirror seeems to have problems with new SHA256 in Packages.diff/Index files

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 06:45:13PM +0800, Michael Bergbauer wrote:
> For a fews days (Dec 09, to be exact, in GMT+8), my debmirror cronjob pulling
> from ftp.us is running in an infinite loop - using up 100% of a core. After
> having a closer look, it seems that the culprit code is in lines 2460ff with a
> $_ value of e.g.  'SHA256-Current:
> d4228ed8d1591732f9a3af33f4064c4e0d173d16218d12b930d1c5de3673d7ce39582357\n',
> when parsing my .temp/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.diff/Index file.

Confirmed here too: Debsources/sources.debian.net hasn't been updated
since December 8th due to this bug.

It'd be great to have a backported debmirror with this fix.

I'll try Colin's oneliner patch as a work-around to get Debsources back
up running.

Cheers.
-- 
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