Bug#740883: dpkg-source -x regression: version number does not start with digit

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 04:33:40AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > I'm just guessing those sources where created and extracted manually, > probably around the time when the “new source format” got introduced, > and where maintainers might have not switched to the new tools yet. > > >

Bug#740883: dpkg-source -x regression: version number does not start with digit

On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 22:27:21 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 20:01:29 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > There seems to be at least two other failure causes: > > > > - patches not applying cleanly, e.g.: > > > > dpkg-source: error: LC_ALL=C patch -t -F 0 -N -p1 -u -V nev

Bug#740883: dpkg-source -x regression: version number does not start with digit

Hi Guillem, thanks for your quick reply, On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 10:27:21PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I've collected the packages that can no longer be extract (without > > returning a > > 0 exit code, at least) and made them available here: > > > > http://people.debian.org/~zack/dpkg-so

Bug#740883: dpkg-source -x regression: version number does not start with digit

On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 20:01:29 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.17.6 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/bin/dpkg-source > While injecting historical Debian releases from archive.debian.org into > sources.debian.net, I've stumbled upon old source packages that can no l

Bug#740883: dpkg-source -x regression: version number does not start with digit

Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.6 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dpkg-source While injecting historical Debian releases from archive.debian.org into sources.debian.net, I've stumbled upon old source packages that can no longer be extracted using dpkg-source -x. I believe this is unfortunate, and