Subject: Bug#3982: Problems with bug tracking system

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 96 11:05 EDT

Package: (debian-bugs)

A bug was reported on my (ancient) archie package last week. I only learned
about this bug report from looking through yesterdays "Unanswered problem
reports by maintainer and package" email. As a maintainer, I should have
received a report, but didn't. 

I see that the bug was reported as "maintonly", yet the bug system log says 
   Package: _archie_; Reported by: llucius <[email-masked]>; dated
   Thu, 25 Jul 1996 16:48:16 GMT; Maintainer for archie is (unknown).

Could it be that packages from non-free don't get processed correctly? Or
did the bug report fall into the window of non-existing packages files for
non-free and contrib last week?

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From: [email-masked] (Ian Jackson)
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Debian bugs information: logs for bug#3910
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 96 07:33 PDT

                        Debian bug report logs - #3910
               "archie" requires changes for multi-arch support
                                       
   Package: _archie_; Reported by: llucius <[email-masked]>; dated
   Thu, 25 Jul 1996 16:48:16 GMT; Maintainer for archie is (unknown).
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   Reply; reply to submitter; close.
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Message received at [email-masked]:

Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 22:26:35 -0500 (CDT)
From: llucius <[email-masked]>
Subject: "archie" requires changes for multi-arch support
To: Maintonly Bug <[email-masked]>

Package: archie
Version: 1.4.1-6

The following problems were encountered while building on m68k arch:

1)  "debian.rules" did not support different architectures.
2)  "debian.rules" created improperly named .deb binaries (new standard).
3)  "debian.control" did not contain architecture field.
4)  "debian.control" contained obsolete "PACKAGE_REVISION" field.

The following patches correct these problems:

- --- orig/archie-1.4.1/debian.control    Sun Nov 26 20:47:24 1995
+++ archie-1.4.1/debian.control Mon Jul 22 19:02:12 1996
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: =
 Version: =
- -Package_Revision: =
+Architecture: =
 Section: non-free
 Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email-masked]>
 Depends: libc5, netbase
- --- orig/archie-1.4.1/debian.rules      Mon Dec  4 20:00:45 1995
+++ archie-1.4.1/debian.rules   Mon Jul 22 19:03:12 1996
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 package=archie
 version=1.4.1
 debian=6
+arch=$(shell dpkg --print-architecture)
 shortname=$(package)-$(version)
 fullname=$(package)-$(version)-$(debian)

@@ -31,12 +32,12 @@
        install -s -m 0755 archie debian-tmp/usr/bin
        install -m 0644 archie.man debian-tmp/usr/man/man1/archie.1
        install -m 0644 debian.README debian-tmp/usr/doc/copyright/$(package)
- -       sed -e '1s/=/$(package)/; 2s/=/$(version)/; 3s/=/$(debian)/' \
+       sed -e '1s/=/$(package)/; 2s/=/$(version)-$(debian)/; 3s/=/$(arch)/' \
                debian.control > debian-tmp/DEBIAN/control
        chown -R root.root debian-tmp
        chmod -R g-ws debian-tmp
        dpkg --build debian-tmp
- -       mv debian-tmp.deb ../$(fullname).deb
+       dpkg-name -o -s .. debian-tmp.deb

 define checkdir
        test -f $(package).c

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   _Acknowledgement sent_ to llucius <[email-masked]>:
   New bug report received and filed, but not forwarded.
   
   You requested that the message be sent to the package maintainer(s)
   but either the bug report is not associated with any package (probably
   because of a missing Package psuedo-header field in the original bug
   report), or the package(s) specified do not have any maintainer(s).
   
   Your message has *not* been sent to any package maintainers; it has
   merely been filed in the bug tracking system. If you require
   assistance please contact [email-masked] quoting the bug number
   3910.
   
   _Full text available._
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    Ian Jackson / [email-masked], through the Debian bug tracking
    mechanism
    
   Last modified: 17:09:04 GMT Thu 25 Jul (timestamp page available).
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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

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From: llucius <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 14:25:04 -0500 (CDT)

> non-free and contrib last week?
I believe what happened was that the Packages file in the non-free 
directory was empty.  It appears that the tracking system uses these 
files to determine who to route the critter complaint to.  It has 
recently been corrected.

Leland

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