There weren't much response on this. I'll go through these bugs now and file them as wishlist bugs. Any objections?
/Simon Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While recursively unpacking source archives in the debian repository > (see [1]), I noticed a small number of packages that contain corrupt > zip/tgz archives. Logs from unpacking them are available from: > > http://josefsson.org/broken-debian-origs/ > > The error messages are mixed in the output due to different buffering > for stdout vs stderr. Searching for ' ' helps to find the real errors. > > A dd-list of the 14 packages is included below. > > Some of the corrupt archives may actually be appropriate. I could > imagine that a corrupt archive can be included in a package to test > regressions for a compressor, or similar self-test reasons. However, > that should be the exception, and I think the majority (if not all) of > these packages actually contains unintentionally corrupt archives. > > Some of the corrupt archives is the *.orig.tar.gz archive itself, and > before noticing that this was a generic problem I reported this against > the 'e3' package, see > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473092>. > > This problem could also be due to bugs in tar, gzip or unzip, although I > find that somewhat unlikely. > > I think it would be nice if there weren't corrupt archives in the > package pool, but I'm not sure if others consider this a real problem. > > What do you think about reporting these as wishlist bugs? > > Thanks, > /Simon > > [1] http://git.josefsson.org/?p=debian-rfc-search.git;a=summary > > Daniel Leidert (dale) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > apbs (U) > > Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > blender > blender (U) > > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > apbs (U) > > Fathi Boudra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > strigi (U) > > Ludovic Brenta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > gnat-glade > > Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > xstarfish > > Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > blender (U) > > Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > maven2 (U) > > LI Daobing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > apbs (U) > > Debian Java Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > maven2 > > Debian KDE Extras Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > strigi > > Debichem Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > apbs > > Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > r-cran-xml > > Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > roxen4 > > Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > dtc > > Wouter van Heyst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > blender (U) > > Georges Khaznadar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wims-extra > > Bastian Kleineidam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > optcomplete > > Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > strigi (U) > > Roger So <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > im-sdk > im-sdk (U) > > Akira TAGOH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > im-sdk (U) > > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > nbd > > Paweł Więcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > e3 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
