RE: Important debstd bug discovered and fixed.
>From the packages currently installed on my machine:
storm@aroostook:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ grep -c DEBIAN *.md5sums | grep -v :0
afterstep.md5sums:4
debmake.md5sums:1
defrag.md5sums:1
diffstat.md5sums:1
doc-rfc.md5sums:2
elm-me+.md5sums:4
equivs.md5sums:2
fmirror.md5sums:2
isapnptools.md5sums:2
libcurses-perl.md5sums:1
lsof.md5sums:3
lurkftp.md5sums:1
makedev.md5sums:4
proftpd.md5sums:6
purity.md5sums:2
rocks-n-diamonds.md5sums:5
tin.md5sums:1
tkcvs.md5sums:4
tree.md5sums:1
xcontrib.md5sums:3
xdelta.md5sums:4
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Meskes, Michael wrote:
> What do we do? Can we tell which packages are broken? Do we have to
> reupload the broken ones?
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Santiago Vila [SMTP:sanvila@unex.es]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 10:41 PM
> > To: Debian Developers
> > Subject: Important debstd bug discovered and fixed.
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >
> > I have just uploaded debmake_3.5.8, which fixes a pretty ugly bug:
> >
> > In debstd, some time ago, there was a line saying:
> >
> > find * -type f ! -regex "DEBIAN/.*" blahblah...
> >
> > In debmake 3.5.7, I changed that line to be more robust, so
> > "find * blah blah..." was replaced by "find . blah blah..."
> >
> > Unfortunately I forgot also to change -regex "DEBIAN/.*"
> > by -regex "./DEBIAN/.*" so all DEBIAN entries were included in the
> > md5sums file, making debsums to fail when the package is installed.
> >
> > As a result of this, there are probably a lot of packages with wrong
> > md5sums files, namely those that were built using debmake 3.5.7.
> >
> > Sorry for that.
> >
> > Thanks.
--
Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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