Control: tags -1 + moreinfo help Control: stop Hello, Max. Hello, Steve. My name is Thaddeus Black. I am adopting maintenance of Debian's package debmirror in place of the late Frans Pop and the retired Joey Hess.
During 2012, Max reported bug 619361 against debmirror: > The fix for #619146 "Should not attempt to mirror > debian-installer for squeeze-updates" has accidentally > widened the regexp of dists that omit a > debian-installer section a little too far. > > Whilst squeeze-updates and successors do not have a > debian-installer section, Ubuntu's *-updates do. Steve followed with a patch and this observation: > It looks like all the dists currently on > ftp.debian.org have a main/debian-installer section. However, as Frans had noted two years earlier in [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581013#10], what Steve observed is not necessarily always the case. Thus, it would seem that Steve's patch cannot be applied. Joey is smarter than I am, and he did not seem to know how to fix this bug. Moreover, Joey was as wary of being drafted into Ubuntu maintenance as I am. (We don't use Ubuntu and lack time to maintain it.) Still, Debian would rather not be the cause of Ubuntu bugs. I have set up a mock archive with a main/debian-installer/binary-amd64 but no main/debian-installer/binary-i386. As far as I can tell, the current debmirror behaves no differently against the mock archive for the one architecture than for the other in this case. Moreover, the current debmirror does not seem to evince Max's bug in either case. The most likely explanation for this is that I do not understand the bug! Feel free to explain more, if this bug is still relevant to you. One gets the feeling that fixing this bug will not be trivial. Someone who cares about Ubuntu may have to delve into this, to come up with a clean solution that fixes Ubuntu's problem while improving, rather than merely hacking, debmirror's code and behavior with respect to Debian proper. If you would like to set up my mock archive on your machine, so that you can prove the bug against it to show me more clearly, exactly what the problem is, let me know. Thanks.
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