reassign 606345 libwww-perl 5.836-1
retitle 606345 HTTP::Response::is_success returns true when content is 
incomplete
thanks

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 06:48:24PM +0300, Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
> I am currently working on a bad wi-fi connection. When upating an
> upstream tarball uscan reported a successful dowload, while the
> download was actually terminated prematurely:
> 
> % uscan --verbose
> …
> -- Downloading updated package gnuplot-4.4.2.tar.gz
> -- Successfully downloaded updated package gnuplot-4.4.2.tar.gz
>     and symlinked gnuplot_4.4.2.orig.tar.gz to it
> -- Scan finished
> 
> % uupdate ../gnuplot_4.4.2.orig.tar.gz 
> New Release will be 4.4.2-1.
> -- Untarring the new sourcecode archive ../gnuplot_4.4.2.orig.tar.gz
> 
> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> uupdate: can't unpack: tar zxf ../gnuplot_4.4.2.orig.tar.gz failed;
> aborting...

uscan uses LWP to perform the download and checks the response object's
is_success method to determine whether the download was successful.  If
the download is corrupt and it isn't being signaled back to the caller
into LWP, then that's a bug in LWP.

Looks like it may be related to #548417.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@debian.org>

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