Debian Bug report logs - #7701
dpkg-buildpackage fails on source packages with too many binary packages

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Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu>

To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dpkg-buildpackage fails on source packages with too many binary packages

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 21:14:16 -0500

Package: dpkg

When a source package has a sufficient number of binary packages, the
Binary: line in the .dsc file becomes long enough to trigger PGP's
non-ASCII detector.  This causes PGP to output just the signature to
the output file, which causes dpkg-genchanges to fail.

Although this is primarily a bug in PGP (what isn't),
dpkg-buildpackage will probably have to somehow be adjusted to cope
somehow, and should do a better job of checking the erorr status of
the signing operation in any case.

Message #12 received at 7701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>

To: klee@mit.edu, 7701@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: bug#7701

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 20:10:24 +0100

Hi.  This bug got reassigned to pgp, which I maintain.  I wonder
if it is still current:

> Package: dpkg

> When a source package has a sufficient number of binary packages, the
> Binary: line in the .dsc file becomes long enough to trigger PGP's
> non-ASCII detector.  This causes PGP to output just the signature to
> the output file, which causes dpkg-genchanges to fail.

I've never seen this occur, even with packages with very long Binary:
lines.  I can find only one place in PGP that attempts to distinguish
between text and binary files, and it uses a frequency count.  It
does not check line length.

Can you give an indication of what sort of Binary: line you were dealing with?

Richard Braakman

Message #17 received at 7701-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Richard Braakman <dark@wapit.com>

To: 7701-done@bugs.debian.org

Cc: klee@mit.edu

Subject: Not reproducible

Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:00:40 +0200

As I said in my previous mail about this bug, I have never seen this
problem occur, and the code in PGP that distinguishes between text
and binary files is not sensitive to line lengths.  So I have reason
to believe that this bug no longer exists.

Richard Braakman

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