Package: reprepro
Version: 4.0.2-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

I recently updated a verry old reprepro instance and it changed the
interface for filter scripts. Before the update it would give the
Packages.gz file as first argument while not it gives the uncompressed
Packages. The filter script used 'zcat "$1" | ...; exit 0'. Since zcat
does not cope with uncompressed files the filter script produced a
completly empty package list. Subsequently all of the mirror was
removed.

Now this isn't reprepros fault but it would be nice if reprepro would
protect aginst this. This could also happen if upstreams Packages file
gets created empty for some reason. It would be nice if reprepro would
have a limit of how much change a single update may produce. Say no
more than +/-10% of the old archive. If more is changed a command line
option should be needed to override this. The 10% should be
configurable obviously.

MfG
        Goswin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.5-book-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages reprepro depends on:
ii  libarchive1             2.6.2-1          Single library to read/write tar, 
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-4          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-5         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdb4.8                4.8.26-1         Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [
ii  libgpg-error0           1.6-1            library for common error values an
ii  libgpgme11              1.2.0-1.2        GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages reprepro recommends:
ii  apt                           0.7.25.1   Advanced front-end for dpkg

Versions of packages reprepro suggests:
ii  gnupg-agent       2.0.14-1               GNU privacy guard - password agent
pn  inoticoming       <none>                 (no description available)
ii  lzma              4.43-14                Compression method of 7z format in
ii  xz-utils          4.999.9beta+20100117-1 XZ-format compression utilities

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